Troubled in the land of enchantment adolescent experience of psychiatric treatment / Thomas J. Csordas and Janis H. Jenkins.
| Author/creator | Csordas, Thomas J. |
| Other author | Jenkins, Janis H. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Land of enchantment, land of pain -- Coming to the hospital -- Defining the problem -- Angry boy, angry girl -- The Experience of psychiatric treatment -- Having a life -- Closing remarks -- Appendix: methods and procedures of Southwest Youth and the Experience of Psychiatric Treatment (SWYEPT). |
| Abstract | "In this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the wellbeing of adolescents in New Mexico hospitalized for psychiatric care. Anthropologists Thomas J. Csordas and Janis H. Jenkins present a gripping picture of psychic distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of managed care that dominates the mental health care system. The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and sites of care. Csordas and Jenkins compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experience, institutional power, and the very possibility of having a life"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Csordas, Thomas J.. Troubled in the land of enchantment Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520343511 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020001565 |
| ISBN | 9780520975019 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (cloth) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |