Disability of the Soul An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan

Name: Disability of the Soul An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan
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ISBN: 9780801478611

ISBN-10: 0801478618

ISBN-13: 9780801478611

Edition: 2017

Authors: Karen Nakamura

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Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique, community approach to psychosocial recovery, Bethel House focuses as much on social integration as on therapeutic work. As a centerpiece of this approach, Bethel House started its own businesses in order to create employment and socialization opportunities for its residents and to change public attitudes toward the mentally ill, but also quite unintentionally provided a significant boost to the distressed local economy. Through its work programs, communal living, and close relationship between…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 6/13/2013
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Karen Nakamura is Associate Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity (winner of the Association for Asian Studies's John Whitney Hall Book Prize) and A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan , both from Cornell.



Acknowledgments


A Note on Language



Arrivals


Memory and Catharsis: Kiyoshi's Story



Psychiatry in Japan


Coming of Age in Japan: Rika's Story



Hokkaido and Christianity



The Founding of Bethel


UFOs and Other Mass Delusions: Kohei's Story



The Doctor and the Hospital


Thirty-Seven Years of Institutionalization: Why Did Yuzuru Never Want to Leave the Hospital?



Bethel Therapies


Peer Support and a Meaningful Life: Gen's Story



Departures



Beyond Bethel: A Postscript


Notes


References


Index