Schizophrenia Culture and Subjectivity

This volume brings together a number of the foremost scholars - anthropologists psychiatrists psychologists and historians - studying schizophrenia its subjective dimensions and the cultural processes through which these are experienced. Based on research undertaken in Australia Bangladesh Borneo Canada Colombia India Indonesia Nigeria the United States and Zanzibar it also incorporates a critical analysis of World Health Organization cross-cultural findings. Contributors share an interest in subjective and interpretive aspects of illness but all work with a concept of schizophrenia that addresses its biological dimensions. The volume is of interest to scholars in the social and human sciences for the theoretical attention given to the relationship between culture and subjectivity. Multidisciplinary in design it is written in a style accessible to a diverse readership including undergraduate students. It is of practical relevance not only to psychiatrists but also to all mental health professionals.