Nobody's normal : how culture created the stigma of mental illness / Roy Richard Grinker.
Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.Description: xxxii, 409 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781324020134
- Nobody is normal
- 616.89 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 616.89 GRI | Available | 064303 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-381) and index.
Introduction: The road out of Bedlam -- Capitalism. Every man for himself ; The invention of mental illness ; The divided body ; The divided mind -- Wars. The fates of war ; Finding Freud ; War is kind ; Norma and Normman ; From the forgotten war to Vietnam ; Post-traumatic stress disorder ; Expectations of sickness -- Body and mind. Telling secrets ; An illness like any other? ; "Like a magic wand" ; When the body speaks ; Bridging body and mind in Nepal ; The dignity of risk -- Conclusion: On the spectrum.
In this 'beautifully written... remarkable history' (Alix Spiegel), anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental illness stigma - from the eighteenth century, through America's major wars, and into today's high-tech economy. Nobody's Normal argues that stigma is a social process that began the moment we defined mental illness, but one that we ultimately have the power to change. Combining cutting-edge science, cross-cultural research, and Grinker's own family history, Nobody's Normal explores how communities throughout the world respond to neurodiversity and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma.
