Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: CULTURE, PSYCHIATRY, AND MENTAL ILLNESS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 444. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 644 if student has credit for ANTH 444.