Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2011
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ANTH 644 001 (CRN: 25411)
CULTURE AND MENTAL ILLNESS
Long Title: CULTURE, PSYCHIATRY, AND MENTAL ILLNESS
Department: Anthropology
Instructor: Ninetto, Amy
Meeting: 2:00PM - 4:59PM M (10-JAN-2011 - 22-APR-2011)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Section Max Enrollment: 10
Section Enrolled: 0
Enrollment data as of: 14-MAY-2024 8:39PM
Final Exam: Take-Home Exam
Description: This seminar takes psychiatric practice as an object of anthropological investigation. It explores the ways in which emotional suffering and therapeutic systems are constituted within various social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics include affect, anxiety, psychosis, and somatization in cross-cultural perspective; diagnostic standardization; the cultural history of psychiatry; institutionalization and deinstitutionalization; psychiatric professionalization; the globalization of Western psychiatric practice; and critical anti-psychiatry movements. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 644 if student has credit for ANTH 444.