When asked to speak about their first psychotic experience, patients interviewed in Québec
could hardly find the words to describe what had happened to them:“I was confused, I was …

Our concern in this book is how we go about the business of understanding and relating to a
range of extra-ordinary human experiences. The particular experiences that concern us here …

This paper reports findings from a study which analysed the narratives of individuals who
described themselves as recovered or recovering from psychosis, a term referring to …

Transcultural studies suggest a possible influence of culture on the course and outcome of
schizophrenia. However, the notion of culture remains ill-defined in these studies; most …

Psychoanalysis as an interpretive strategy aims to include the repressed and despised no
less than the exalted and approved, and especially to focus attention on that which, by virtue …

How do local responses to trauma articulate with understandings of subjectivity,
personhood, and meaning making? What therapeutic mechanisms seem to be at play? And …

A great deal of ink has been spilled debating the roles of sociocultural factors as
conspirators that cause disease and affliction (Dunham 1968). Far less attention has …

The article examines individuals' attempts to generate meaning following their experiences
with psychosis. The inquiry is based on a person‐centered ethnographic study of a Danish …

The title of this chapter evokes the common ground between anthropology and psychiatry,
and by extension suggests Edward Sapir's (1932) enduringly astute essay on this topic …