Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
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TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDED When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic--a beautifully written study tracing the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520047869
ISBN13:9780520047860
Release Date:January 1983
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:259 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 8.9" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
a good ethnography
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics is a good ethnography of the feild work done by Mrs. Hughes. She gives good deffinitions for the translated Irish words used. A good veiw into the life of the isolated mountain regions f the Dingle Peninsula
special case study with Gregory Bateson's Binding Bonding Theory
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
well worth studying this book! Gives examples of the dynamic whole society maintenance of the status quo thru Bateson's Double-Bind theory of schizophrenia.
Exposes wriggling psychic life under the Blarney Stone
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
A superb description and analysis of the pathologies in Irish styles of interaction, conversational and behavioural. Written by an American psycho-anthropologist conducting fieldwork in Ireland. Brings a detached eye to Irish patterns of conversation and communication. Should be required reading for Irish people seeking self understanding and insight into why their culture is how it is. Caused an uproar on publication - a recommendation in iself - not due to sensationalism, but because truth normally buried was painful when it emerged into the light of day.
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