The interior dimension of human experience is the subject matter of psychoanalysis. The
languages in which psychoanalysis was practiced and inscribed multiplied too. A rainbow of …

This paper sets out to briefly explore the definitions of two interrelated subfields of cultural
anthropology; psychological anthropology and medical anthropology. This exploration will …

Medical Anthropology Enters the 21st Century : The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Medical Anthropology Enters the 21st Century : The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease …

Anthropology and psychiatry have long shared common intellectual and scientific ground.
Both are interested in human beings, the societies within which they live and their …

When people read my calling card they ask first, What is a clinical anthropologist? If they are
anthropologists, they ask What is the need for another new specialty? The answer to the …

This article argues for a more comprehensive analytical approach in medical anthropology
than is currently followed, one that combines attention to structural factors (political …

In light of the recent emphasis on social and cultural factors in psychoanalytic theory and
practice, this article will elaborate earlier attempts to bridge psychoanalysis and the study of …

The anthropology of mental illness involves the study of human distress in context, which in
turn shapes the way in which distress is understood and treated. Anthropology provides …

IN THIS PAPER Iwill FIRST review what I mean by its title, then establish a framework for
comparing and contrasting our two traн ditions of anthropology and psychoanalysis, and …

Written by distinguished artists and scholars with psychoanalytic training, this seminal
collection of essays spans the humanities-painting, sculpture, literature, history …