LEADER 04416nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910792002503321 005 20230327203445.0 010 $a1-322-50396-6 010 $a0-8014-6799-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801467998 035 $a(CKB)2560000000102738 035 $a(EBL)3138493 035 $a(OCoLC)922998429 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000917597 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11485407 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000917597 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10892666 035 $a(PQKB)11790667 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138493 035 $a(OCoLC)1080551604 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58462 035 $a(DE-B1597)496370 035 $a(OCoLC)849787662 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801467998 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138493 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10720660 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681678 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000102738 100 $a20121220d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA disability of the soul$b[electronic resource] $ean ethnography of schizophrenia and mental illness in contemporary Japan /$fKaren Nakamura 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8014-5192-2 311 $a0-8014-7861-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tA Note on Language --$tChapter One. Arrivals --$tChapter Two. Psychiatry in Japan --$tChapter Three. Hokkaido and Christianity --$tChapter Four. The Founding of Bethel --$tChapter Five. The Doctor and the Hospital --$tChapter Six. Bethel Therapies --$tChapter Seven. Departures --$tChapter Eight. Beyond Bethel. A Postscript --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aBethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique, community approach to psychosocial recovery, Bethel House focuses as much on social integration as on therapeutic work. As a centerpiece of this approach, Bethel House started its own businesses in order to create employment and socialization opportunities for its residents and to change public attitudes toward the mentally ill, but also quite unintentionally provided a significant boost to the distressed local economy. Through its work programs, communal living, and close relationship between hospital and town, Bethel has been remarkably successful in carefully reintegrating its members into Japanese society. It has become known as a model alternative to long-term institutionalization.In A Disability of the Soul, Karen Nakamura explores how the members of this unique community struggle with their lives, their illnesses, and the meaning of community. Told through engaging historical narrative, insightful ethnographic vignettes, and compelling life stories, her account of Bethel House depicts its achievements and setbacks, its promises and limitations. The book is accompanied by a DVD containing two fascinating documentaries about Bethel made by the author-Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia in Northern Japan and A Japanese Funeral (winner of the Society for Visual Anthropology Short Film Award and the Society for East Asian Anthropology David Plath Media Award). A Disability of the Soul is a sensitive and multidimensional portrait of what it means to live with mental illness in contemporary Japan. 606 $aMentally ill$xRehabilitation$zJapan$zUrakawa-cho? 606 $aSchizophrenics$xRehabilitation$zJapan$zUrakawa-cho? 606 $aCommunity mental health services$zJapan$zUrakawa-cho? 606 $aMental illness$xSocial aspects$zJapan 606 $aSchizophrenia$xSocial aspects$zJapan 615 0$aMentally ill$xRehabilitation 615 0$aSchizophrenics$xRehabilitation 615 0$aCommunity mental health services 615 0$aMental illness$xSocial aspects 615 0$aSchizophrenia$xSocial aspects 676 $a362.2/6 700 $aNakamura$b Karen$f1970-$01552787 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792002503321 996 $aA disability of the soul$93812882 997 $aUNINA