Crazy like us
The Globalization of the American Psyche
About this book
The most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture across the globe has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters, but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself. American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions, and the virus is us. Traveling from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka to Zanzibar to Japan, acclaimed journalist Ethan Watters witnesses firsthand how Western healers often steamroll indigenous expressions of mental health and madness and replace them with our own. In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been homogenizing the way the world goes mad.
Subjects
- 21e s. (début)
- aspect psychologique
- clinical medicine
- cross-cultural comparison
- cross-cultural studies
- culture
- diagnostic (médecine)
- différence
- diseases
- épidémiologie psychiatrique
- epidemiology
- études transculturelles
- evidence-based medicine
- general
- globalization
- health & fitness
- identité culturelle
- influence exercée
- internal medicine
- internationality
- international relations
- irish
- maladie mentale
- maladies mentales
- medical
- mental disorders
- mental illness
- mondialisation
- pathological psychology
- political science
- psychiatric epidemiology
- psychological aspects
- psychology, pathological
- psychopathologie
- public health, united states
- race identity
- social sciences -> political science -> international relations & foreign policy
- social sciences -> psychology -> abnormal psychology
- social sciences -> social sciences -> general
- traitement
- traumatisme psychique
- united states, politics and government