Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (531 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520224809 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 407 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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special case study with Gregory Bateson's Binding Bonding Theory Clear Pilot well worth studying this book! Gives examples of the dynamic whole society maintenance of the status quo thru Bateson's Double-Bind theory of schizophrenia.. "Excellent review of this book - with update 20 years later" according to Catherine Todd. Here's an excellent review of the book:Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Irelandby Nancy Scheper-HughesUniversity of California Press, 2001Review by Gina Zavota on Mar 18th 2002[]---When Nancy Scheper-Hughes's Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland first appeared in 1977, it attracted immediate attention on both sides of the Atlantic. But despite being widely celebrated in North American anthropological circles, it shocked and outraged many of those who were its subjects: the residents of the tiny village of An Clochán on western Ireland's Dingle Peninsula. They took of. "Worth at least two Guiness" according to Amazon Customer. This is an extraordinary read and I lived in the town where it was researched. WOW. Totally amazing and well worth the read.
Following a recent return to "Ballybran," Scheper-Hughes reflects in a new preface and epilogue on the well-being of the community and on her attempts to reconcile her responsibility to honest ethnography with respect for the people who shared their homes and their secrets with her.. TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDEDWhen Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic—a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. In this richly detailed and sympathetic book, Nancy Scheper-Hughes explores the symptoms of the community's decline: emigration, malaise, unwanted celibacy, damaging patterns of childrearing, fear of intimacy, suicide, and schizophrenia
She is a skillful pathologist of human nature and a strikingly good writer."--Micheal Viney, "The Irish Times . "Scheper-Hughes draws you after her, nodding in recognition, as she dissects and holds up to the light