Troubled in the land of enchantment: adolescent experience of psychiatric treatment
Land of enchantment, land of pain -- Coming to the hospital -- Defining the problem -- Angry boy, angry girl -- The Experience of psychiatric treatment -- Having a life -- Closing remarks -- Appendix: methods and procedures of Southwest Youth and the Experience of Psychiatric Treatment (SWYEPT).
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
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| Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. UB: KB 21 A 972 |
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| Summary: | Land of enchantment, land of pain -- Coming to the hospital -- Defining the problem -- Angry boy, angry girl -- The Experience of psychiatric treatment -- Having a life -- Closing remarks -- Appendix: methods and procedures of Southwest Youth and the Experience of Psychiatric Treatment (SWYEPT). "In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the wellbeing of adolescents in New Mexico hospitalized for psychiatric care. Anthropologists Thomas J. Csordas and Janis H. Jenkins present a gripping picture of psychic distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of managed care that dominates the mental health care system. The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and sites of care. Csordas and Jenkins compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having a life"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 283 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780520343511 9780520343528 |