A Disability of the Soul : An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan / Karen Nakamura.
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TextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 31 b&w halftones, 1 line drawing, 2 maps, 2 chartsContent type: - 9780801467998
- Community mental health services -- Japan -- Urakawa-chō
- Community mental health services -- Japan -- Urakawa-chō
- Community mental health services -- Japan -- Urakawa-chō
- Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Japan
- Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Japan
- Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation -- Japan -- Urakawa-chō
- Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation -- Japan -- Urakawa-chō
- Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation -- Japan -- Urakawa-chō
- Schizophrenia -- Social aspects -- Japan
- Schizophrenia -- Social aspects -- Japan
- Schizophrenics -- Rehabilitation -- Japan -- Urakawa-chō
- Schizophrenics -- Rehabilitation -- Japan -- Urakawa-chō
- Schizophrenics -- Rehabilitation -- Japan -- Urakawa-chō
- Anthropology
- Asian Studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Community mental health services in japan
- bethel house in japan
- bethel house
- books for masters in social work
- books for practicing mental health professionals
- books for practicing psychiatrists
- books for students in social work
- community approach to psychosocial recovery
- cultural japanese history
- disability in japan
- east asian studies
- ethnography of schizophrenia in japan
- global disability studies
- global mental health
- history of Japan’s care for the mentally ill
- history of disability studies
- history of psychiatric care for psychosis in Japan
- how does japan help the mentally ill
- intentional community for people with schizophrenia
- japanese anthropology
- japanese culture
- japanese mental health practices
- japanese psychiatry
- japanese society
- japanese studies
- japenese history
- learning about the Self Directed Research
- lived experiences of schizophrenics
- living with mental illness
- living with schizophrenia
- medical psychology pathologies
- mental health care in japan
- mental health clinicians
- mental health facilities case studies
- mental health facilities in japan
- mental health in japan
- mental illness in japan
- mental illness rehabilitation
- modern east asian studies
- modern japan and mental illness
- modern japanese society
- outpatient case studies
- overcoming mental health stigma
- psychiatric care in japan
- psychiatric disorders in japan
- psychiatric illness is shaped by culture
- psychiatry in japan
- psychology ethnographies
- schizophrenia in japan
- social aspects of schizophrenia
- social integration as on therapeutic work
- sociology japanese
- study of japanese psychiatry
- the mentally ill in japan
- treating schizophrenia in other countries
- 362.2/6 23
- RC439.5 .N35 2013
- online - DeGruyter
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Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online | online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Online access | Not for loan (Accesso limitato) | Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users | (dgr)9780801467998 |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Language -- Chapter One. Arrivals -- Chapter Two. Psychiatry in Japan -- Chapter Three. Hokkaido and Christianity -- Chapter Four. The Founding of Bethel -- Chapter Five. The Doctor and the Hospital -- Chapter Six. Bethel Therapies -- Chapter Seven. Departures -- Chapter Eight. Beyond Bethel. A Postscript -- Notes -- References -- Index
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‹p›‹b›"This is a terrific book-moving, clear, and compassionate. It not only illustrates the way psychiatric illness is shaped by culture, but also suggests that social environments can be used to improve the course and outcome of the illness. Well worth reading."‹/b›- T. M. Luhrmann, author of ‹i›Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist looks at American Psychiatry‹/i›‹/p›‹p›Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique, community approach to psychosocial recovery, Bethel House focuses as much on social integration as on therapeutic work. As a centerpiece of this approach, Bethel House started its own businesses in order to create employment and socialization opportunities for its residents and to change public attitudes toward the mentally ill, but also quite unintentionally provided a significant boost to the distressed local economy. Through its work programs, communal living, and close relationship between hospital and town, Bethel has been remarkably successful in carefully reintegrating its members into Japanese society. It has become known as a model alternative to long-term institutionalization.‹/p›‹p›In ‹b›‹i›A Disability of the Soul‹/i›‹/b›, Karen Nakamura explores how the members of this unique community struggle with their lives, their illnesses, and the meaning of community. Told through engaging historical narrative, insightful ethnographic vignettes, and compelling life stories, her account of Bethel House depicts its achievements and setbacks, its promises and limitations. ‹b›‹i›A Disability of the Soul‹/i› ‹/b›is a sensitive and multidimensional portrait of what it means to live with mental illness in contemporary Japan.‹/p›
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
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