Troubled in the Land of Enchantment
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adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care
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cultural phenomenology of existence
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familial turmoil
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groundbreaking
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mental health care system
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personal anguish and structural violence
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psychiatric diagnosis
psychic distress
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- ISBN 9780520343511
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2020
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care in New Mexico. Anthropologists Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas 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. Jenkins and Csordas compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having a life.
Janis H. Jenkins is Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Global Mental Health at UC San Diego. Her books include Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness and Pharmaceutical Self: Global Shaping of Experience in an Age of Psychopharmacology.
Thomas J. Csordas is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, James Y. Chan Presidential Chair in Global Health, and Director of the Global Health Program at UC San Diego. His books include The Sacred Self and Body/Meaning/Healing.
Thomas J. Csordas is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, James Y. Chan Presidential Chair in Global Health, and Director of the Global Health Program at UC San Diego. His books include The Sacred Self and Body/Meaning/Healing.
