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Anthropology and Psychopathology: The course is designed to give the student a sense for the development of models of mental illness (especially) in the twentieth century and how anthropology has articulated to such models, using three very well studied examples -- 'Schizophrenia', 'Depression', and 'Addiction'. We also investigate some of the social context of treatment – especially the crisis of asylum-based psychiatry in North America and Europe, which began in the mid-twentieth century and, in some ways, continues to this day. Finally, the course will cycle through the ways that psychiatric concerns touch on the warp and woof of everyday life – from the persistent popularity of self-help manuals to the explosion of so-called ‘cosmetic’ pharmacology.
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