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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"psychological anthropology"”.
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Navigating Pain: Women's Healing Practices in a Hindu Temple
… temple in North India, popular for treating psychological ailments that manifest as spirit afflictions. Religious healing centers constitute the single most popular pathway of mental health care for Indian women. These folk sites, based on etiologies of supernatural affliction and healing …
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In the House of Change: The Making and Remaking of Female Youth in Residential Treatment
… on the campus. Drawing on a robust literature in psychological anthropology and critically applied medical anthropology, as well as work on pathology and criminality in psychology, sociology, and philosophy, the study uncovers the processes through which a group of adolescent girls are made and …
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Searching for Healing Amidst the Genocidal Logic: Fragmentary Exiled Bosnian (Im)Possibilities
… is situated within the domains of political and psychological anthropology, guided by a decolonial perspective partially inspired by the psychiatric-political works of Frantz Fanon. I engage with Bosnians in their fifties and sixties living in Belgium and the Netherlands who were forcedly exiled …
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Mosh pits and mental health: metal communities and emerging adults' well-being
… on this subject, accounting for research within psychological anthropology, sociology, public health, popular music studies, and adolescent and emerging adult psychology. This Chapter will describe not just previous studies on heavy metal music communities, but should also provide a foundation on …
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Peer support trumps drug cocktails: cultural views of treatment options for persons with bipolar and depressive disorders
In this thesis I propose that participants of a peer-support group for depression and bipolar disorder cognitively "model" their conditions in culture-particular ways. Specifically, I suggest that these patients embrace a particular clinical storytelling process that helps them to regulate their …
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(Mis)understanding Afghanistan: an ethnographic examination of 'human elements' affecting the nexus between understanding and strategy in population-centric conflict
(Mis)Understanding Afghanistan is an ethnographic examination of human elements affecting the nexus between understanding and strategy in population-centric conflict during the US/NATO engagement (2001-2015). Fieldwork traces processes of knowledge production that delineate three primary …