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A disability of the soul : an ethnography of schizophrenia and mental illness in contemporary Japan / / Karen Nakamura



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Autore: Nakamura Karen <1970-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: A disability of the soul : an ethnography of schizophrenia and mental illness in contemporary Japan / / Karen Nakamura Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
Disciplina: 362.2/6
Soggetto topico: Mentally ill - Rehabilitation - Japan - Urakawa-cho
Schizophrenics - Rehabilitation - Japan - Urakawa-cho
Community mental health services - Japan - Urakawa-cho
Mental illness - Social aspects - Japan
Schizophrenia - Social aspects - Japan
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Language -- Chapter One. Arrivals -- Chapter Two. Psychiatry in Japan -- Chapter Three. Hokkaido and Christianity -- Chapter Four. The Founding of Bethel -- Chapter Five. The Doctor and the Hospital -- Chapter Six. Bethel Therapies -- Chapter Seven. Departures -- Chapter Eight. Beyond Bethel. A Postscript -- Notes -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Bethel 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.
Titolo autorizzato: A disability of the soul  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-322-50396-6
0-8014-6799-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910821304303321
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