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<p> This is a terrific book moving, clear, and compassionate. It not only illustrates the way psychiatric illness is shaped by culture, but also suggests that social environments can be used to improve the course and outcome of the illness. Well worth reading. T. M. Luhrmann, author of Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist looks at American Psychiatry

<p> This is a terrific book-moving, clear, and compassionate. It not only illustrates the way psychiatric illness is shaped by culture, but also suggests that social environments can be used to improve the course and outcome of the illness. Well worth reading. -T. M. Luhrmann, author of Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist looks at American Psychiatry

This is a terrific book moving, clear, and compassionate. It not only illustrates the way psychiatric illness is shaped by culture, but also suggests that social environments can be used to improve the course and outcome of the illness. Well worth reading. T. M. Luhrmann, author of Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist looks at American Psychiatry

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Karen Nakamura is Associate Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity (winner of the Association for Asian Studies's John Whitney Hall Book Prize) and A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan, both from Cornell.

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