Writing Homework Help

You need to watch one of the following films and write a two-pages analytical reflection based on the film and at least one of the readings from our syllabus. Turn it in by May 22nd. Below are the films you can watch (for those available in Kanopy you need the UCSD VPN connection).

1. Going sane. The state of Mental Health Care in America. https://ucsd.kanopy.com/video/going-sane (Links to an external site.)

2. Crazywise. Rethinking Madness: Psychosis and Spiritual Awakening. https://ucsd.kanopy.com/video/crazywise (Links to an external site.)

3. Nise. The Heart of Madness. (Netflix – movie available only in specific regions-).

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My class readings

White R., Orr D., Read U. and Jain S. 2017. Situating Global Mental Health: Sociocultural Perspectives. pp. 1-16. In White R., Jain S., Orr D. and Read U. (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health. Palgrave Macmillan.

Pinto S.A. 2018. Indian Insanity and the Local-Colonial Contest for its Treatment. In: Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay. Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94244-5_2

Harding Christopher. 2017. Historical Reflections on Mental Health and Illness: India, Japan and the West. pp. 71-92. In White R., Jain S., Orr D. and Read U. (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health. Palgrave Macmillan.

Akyeampong Emmanuel. 2015. A Historical Overview of Psychiatry in Africa. pp. 24-49. In Akyeampong, Hill and Kleinman (eds.). The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa. Indiana University Press.Pinto S.A. 2018. Indian Insanity and the Local-Colonial Contest for its Treatment. In: Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay. Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94244-5_2H

15 Psychiatry from an Anthropological Perspective

Arthur Kleinman. 1988. Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience. The Free Press. (Chapters 1 and 2: What is a Psychiatric Diagnosis? Do Psychiatric Disorders differ in different Cultures? pp. 5-33).

22 Critical Reflections on Mental Health

Whitley Rob. Beyond Critique: Rethinking Roles for the Anthropology of Mental Health. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (2014) 38: 499-511. DOI 10.1007/s11013-014-9382-y

Dyck E. and Rusell G. 2020. Challenging Psychiatry Classification: Healthy Autistic Diversity and the Neurodiversity Movement. In Taylor S. and Brumby A. Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century. In and Beyond the Asylum.

Gavin Miller. 2017. Reflecting on Medicalization of Distress. pp. 93-108. In White R., Jain S., Orr D. and Read U. (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health. Palgrave Macmillan.

29 Mental Health and Experience

Jenkins, Janis H. 2015. Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness. University of California Press. (Introduction).

Luhrmann Tanya and Marrow Jocelyn. 2016. Our Most Troubling Madness. Cases in Schizophrenia across Cultures. University of California Press. (Introduction)

Social/Cultural dimensions of Mental Health/Illness

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6 Religion and Spirituality

Csordas, T. 2017. Psychiatry and the Sweat Lodge: Therapeutic Resources for Native American Adolescents. pp. 127-139. In Basu H., Littlewood R., and Steinforth A. (eds.) Spirit and Mind: Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion and Psychiatry. Lit. Verlag Dr. W. Hopf.

Khoury N., Kaiser B., Keys H. and Brewster A. Explanatory Models and Mental Health Treatment: Is Vodou an Obstacle to Psychiatric Treatment in Rural Haiti? Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (2012) 36: 514-534. DOI 10.1007/s11013-012-9270-2

13 Ethnic Differences

Zeledon I., West A., Antony V., Telles V., Begay C., Henderson B., Unger J., Soto C. Statewide collaborative partnership among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities in California to target the opioid epidemic: Preliminary results of the Tribal Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) key informant needs assessment. Journal of Susbstance Abuse Treatment108 (2020) 9-19.

O’Nell Teresa D. Culture and Pathology. Flathead Loneliness Revisited. The 2001 Roger Allan Moore Lecture. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.28: 221-230, 2004.

20 Migration

Paat Y. and Green R. 2017. Mental Health of Immigrants and Refugees seeking legal services on the US-Mexico Border. Transcultural Psychiatry. Vol. 54 (5-6) 783-805. DOI: 10.1177/1363461517746316

Gozdziak E. Training Refugee Mental Health Providers: Ethnography as a Bridge to Multicultural Practice. Society for Applied Anthropology. Human Organization, Summer 2004, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 203-210.

Este D., Simich L., Hamilton H. and Sato C. 2017. Perceptions and understandings of mental health from three Sudanese communities in Canada. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health. 10:3, 238-249, DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2017.1296876