Crazy like us

Description:

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: Irish,  Race identity,  Globalization,  Mental illness,  Cross-cultural studies,  Psychological aspects,  Psychiatric epidemiology,  Pathological Psychology,  Cross-Cultural Comparison,  Internationality,  Mental Disorders,  Psychology, pathological,  Epidemiology,  Maladies mentales,  Études transculturelles,  Psychopathologie,  Mondialisation,  Aspect psychologique,  Épidémiologie psychiatrique,  HEALTH & FITNESS,  Diseases,  General,  MEDICAL,  Clinical Medicine,  Evidence-Based Medicine,  Internal Medicine,  Diagnostic (médecine),  Maladie mentale,  Influence exercée,  21e s. (début),  Traitement,  Culture,  Différence,  Identité culturelle,  Traumatisme psychique,  Political science,  International relations,  Social sciences -> psychology -> abnormal psychology,  Social sciences -> political science -> international relations & foreign policy,  Social sciences -> social sciences -> general,  Public health, united states,  United states, politics and government