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Pathologies of the West An Anthropology of Mental Illness in Europe and America
by Littlewood, Roland
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- ISBN-13: 9780801439346
- ISBN: 0801439345
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Psychiatry conventionally regards spirit possession in non-European societies as abnormal--Littlewood contends that Western psychiatric illnesses are themselves "posession states" in which individual agency is displaced through an idiom of alien intrusion, whether by a spirit or disease.Littlewood, Roland is the author of 'Pathologies of the West An Anthropology of Mental Illness in Europe and America' with ISBN 9780801439346 and ISBN 0801439345.
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