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).

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Authors: Jenkins, Janis Hunter (Author) ; Csordas, Thomas J. 1952- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
In:Year: 2020
Online Access: Table of Contents
Blurb
Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 21 A 972
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Subito Delivery Service: Order now.
Keywords:
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: 1727257936
Description
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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xiv, 283 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780520343511
9780520343528