Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2021-2022
ANTH 444 - CULTURE AND MENTAL ILLNESS
Long Title: CULTURE, PSYCHIATRY, AND MENTAL ILLNESS
Department: Anthropology
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
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 644. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 444 if student has credit for ANTH 644.