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Assignment 1 (AS1) 2024/25

Assignment 2 (AS2) 2024/25

Seminar Participation 1 (SP1) 2024/25

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1. Introduction

Kleinman (1987) 'Anthropology and psychiatry: The role of culture in cross-cultural research on illness'

Grinker (2021) Nobody's Normal

The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health - P.E. MOSKOWITZHi

1. Introduction lecture slides

Week 1. Lecture Outline and references

Week 1 Introduction lecture recording

2. The Anthropology of Psychiatry

2 Anthropology of Psychiatry - Slides

Lecture outline and references

Lecture Topic questions

Reading recommendations - Anthropology of Psychiatry

Reaction to Readings

The Future of Psychiatry (referenced in lecture)

Emily Martin 'Bilpolar Expeditions' Chapters 4 &amp; 5

Armstrong, Neil 2024. Collaborative Ethnographic Working in Mental Health: Knowledge, Power and Hope in an Age of Bureaucratic Accountability

Problems of Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Need for a Different approach. BPS

Student Presentations

Phantoms in the Brain

Lecture Discussion - Week 2 Slides

3. Psychoanalysis in Anthropological Perspective

Lecture Slides - Psychoanalysis

Lecture Outline and References

Lecture Topic questions

Reading Recommendations - Psychoanalysis in Anthropological Perspective

Freud - An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (Part 1)

Yakeley - Psychoanalysis in modern mental health practice

Gananath Obeyesekere - Representation and Symbol Formation in a Psychoanalytic Anthropology

Sudhir Kakar - Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Cultures

Reaction to Readings

Student Presentations

Lecture discussion slides

4. Depression and Culture

Culture and Depression slides

Lecture outline and references - Culture and Depression

Lecture Topic questions

Reading recommendations for Depression &amp; Culture

Good &amp; Kleinman

Jadhav Cultural Construction of Western Depression

Horowitz - The social function of natural kinds: the case of major depression

Reaction to Readings

Student Presentations

Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission

Disorders of Mood: The Experience of Those Who Have Them

The Metropolis and Mental Life Today—Shanghai 2018

Lecture discussion slides - Depression

5. Trauma and the Emergence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Lecture Slides - Trauma and PTSD

Lecture outline and references

Lecture Topic questions

Reading Recommendations - Trauma PTSD

Reaction to Readings

Student Presentations

#TraumaTok: How trauma took over the internet

Lecture discussion slides - trauma

7. Spirit Possession, Trance and Transient Mental Illness

Lecture Slides - Possession and Dissociation

Lecture outline and references - Possession and disassociation

Reading recommendations - Spirit Possession Dissociation

Reaction to Readings

Lecture Topic questions

Kalpana Ram - Fertile Disorder Chapter 3

The Erosion of Spirit Possession and the Rise of “Tension” in South India - Halliburton

Possession - Littlewood

Emily Martin 'Bilpolar Expeditions' Chapters 4 & 5

Reading recommendations for Depression & Culture

Good & Kleinman

Dissociative Experience ... Seligman & Kirmayer

Rose & Abi Rached 2013. Neuro_Ch 7 _Personhood_in_a_Neurobiological_Age,

Seikkula & Trimble