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| Summary: | "This book investigates the psychological toll of conflict in the Middle East during the twentieth century, including discussion of how spiritual and religious frameworks influence practice and theory. The concept of mental health treatment in war-torn Middle Eastern nations is painfully understudied. In Disturbing Spirits, Beverly A. Tsacoyianis blends social, cultural, and medical history research methods with approaches in disability and trauma studies to demonstrate that the history of mental illness in Syria and Lebanon since the 1890s is embedded in disparate-but not necessarily mutually exclusive-ideas about legitimate healing. Tsacoyianis examines the encounters between "Western" psychiatry and local practices and argues that the attempt to implement "modern" cosmopolitan biomedicine for the last 120 years has largely failed-in part because of political instability and political traumas and in part because of narrow definitions of modern medicine that excluded spirituality and locally meaningful cultural practices."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Item Description: | "The concept of mental health treatment in war-torn Middle Eastern nations is painfully understudied, and Tsacoyianis bridges the gap between history and psychiatry to contextualize the state of help on the ground. Not surprisingly, the news is profoundly troubling as we see nations like Lebanon and Syria struggle to recover structurally and economically, while drowning psychologically. Tsacoyianis personalizes the stakes and moves us to think about what comes after the physical war stops" |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-342) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 0268200726
9780268200725 |
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