Troubled in the Land of Enchantment: Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment Paperback University of California Press
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Troubled in the Land of Enchantment: Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment Paperback University of California Press

Troubled in the Land of Enchantment: Adolescent Experience of Psychiatric Treatment

University of California Press
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In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care in New Mexico. Anthropologists Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas present a gripping picture of psychic distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of managed care that dominates the mental health care system. The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and sites of care. Jenkins and Csordas compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having a life.

Author: Janis H. Jenkins, Thomas J. Csordas
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08/25/2020
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780520343528
ISBN10: 0520343522
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Medical | Psychiatry | Child & Adolescent
- Medical | Mental Health

About the Author
Janis H. Jenkins is Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Global Mental Health at UC San Diego. Her books include Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness and Pharmaceutical Self: Global Shaping of Experience in an Age of Psychopharmacology.

Thomas J. Csordas is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, James Y. Chan Presidential Chair in Global Health, and Director of the Global Health Program at UC San Diego. His books include The Sacred Self and Body/Meaning/Healing.