these are the readings and the link of the audio in order to be able to answer the following questions:
Pressman, Jack D. 1993. “Concepts of Mental Illness in the West.” In The Cambridge World History of Human Diseases, edited by K. F. Kiple. 59-85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bures, Frank. 2016. The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes. Brooklyn: Melville House, 3-47.
Hammond, Claudia. 2013. “Mental Health: Hikikomori.” BBC World Service. July 7, 2013. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01bdmw7
- 1. According to Pressman, what are the salient examples to illustrate the changing notions and practices of psychiatry before and after 1900? (Give three concrete examples) What facilitated these changes?
- 2. In The Geography of Madness, how does the author explain the connections between culture-bound syndromes and different societies/cultures? Give three examples. Did they change over time? How does the author think of “narratives” playing in the understanding of these syndromes?
- 3. According to the author, what is hikikomori? Looking at it from the perspective of medical history, how was the understanding of hikikomori changing over time? What was the connection between hikikomori and societies (Japan and other countries)?
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