Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of Illness

A Companion to the Anthropology of India

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 482-499

  Pinto, Sarah ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approaching anthropological project of "culture and personality" by Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, using tools of psychoanalysis; Arrival of psychoanalysis discourse and scholarship, new ways of thinking; Case, Kavita's ailment not schizophrenia, but Dissociative Disorder; Conversation about psychiatry in India beginning with psychoanalysis; Cultures of the psyche, politics of illness; Distresses of range of severity treated with medication, drugs, psychotropics and vitamin supplements; Freud's writing, decentering Cartesian notions of a singular self; Kavita's case, pluralistic nature of illness explanation, and treatment in India; Kavita's case, ways that "difference" negotiated in Indian psychiatry; Kim Hopper, "both persisting cross cultural puzzles and emerging picture of Western" "clinical complexity .... ethnographic inquiry"

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885559525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390599.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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