Crazy like us : the globalization of the American psyche / Ethan Watters.
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TextPublication details: New York : Free Press, 2010.Description: vii, 306 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781416587088 :
- 141658708X
- 9781416587194 (ebk.)
- 1416587195 (ebk.)
- Mental illness -- Cross-cultural studies
- Psychology, Pathological -- Cross-cultural studies
- Mental illness -- United States
- Globalization -- Psychological aspects
- Psychiatric epidemiology
- La enfermedad mental -- Los estudios transculturales
- Psicología Patológicos -- Los estudios transculturales
- La enfermedad mental -- Estados Unidos
- Globalización -- Aspectos Psicológicos
- Epidemiología Psiquiátrica
- 616.89
- RC 455.4 W347c 2010
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The rise of anorexia in Hong Kong -- The wave that brought PTSD to Sri Lanka -- The shifting mask of schizophrenia in Zanzibar -- The mega-marketing of depression in Japan -- Conclusion : the global economic crisis and the future of mental illness.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-291) and index.
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