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Crazy like us : the globalization of the American psyche / Ethan Watters.

Watters, Ethan. (Author).
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Location: IAHS STACKS RC455.4 .E8 W38 2011
Barcode: 30731101098105
Status: Available

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  • ISBN: 1416587098
  • ISBN: 9781416587095
  • Physical Description: vii, 307 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st Free Press trade paperback ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2011

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-291) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Rise of anorexia in Hong Kong -- Wave that brought PTSD to Sri Lanka -- Shifting mask of schizophrenia in Zanzibar -- Mega-marketing of depression in Japan -- Global economic crisis and the future of mental illness.
Summary, etc.:
Journalist Watters explores the American exportation of how the world goes mad, arguing that as we introduce Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases.

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Subject: Mental illness > Cross-cultural studies.
Psychology, Pathological > Cross-cultural studies.
Mental illness > United States.
Globalization > Psychological aspects.
Psychiatric epidemiology.
Mental Disorders
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Internationality.
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