Nobody's normal : how culture created the stigma of mental illness / Roy Richard Grinker.
By: Grinker, Roy Richard [author.].
Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, ©2021Edition: First Edition.Description: 409 p.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393531640.Subject(s): Mental illness -- History | Mentally ill -- History | Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: "A compassionate and eye-opening examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma-from the eighteenth century, through America's major wars, and into today's high-tech economy. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family's four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather's analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter's experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Nobody's Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma. The preeminent historian of medicine, Sander Gilman, calls Nobody's Normal "the most important work on stigma in more than half a century.""--| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC455 .G75 2021 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000017146 |
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| RC455 .C57 2016 Sociology of mental disorder / | RC455 .C67 2018 The stigma effect : unintended consequences of mental health campaigns / | RC455 .G726 2013 Mind, modernity, madness : the impact of culture on human experience / | RC455 .G75 2021 Nobody's normal : how culture created the stigma of mental illness / | RC455 .J28 2017 Insane consequences : how the mental health industry fails the mentally ill / | RC455 .S5958 2015 The social determinants of mental health / | RC455 .Y356 2018 Written off : mental health stigma and the loss of human potential / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A compassionate and eye-opening examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma-from the eighteenth century, through America's major wars, and into today's high-tech economy. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family's four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather's analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter's experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Nobody's Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma. The preeminent historian of medicine, Sander Gilman, calls Nobody's Normal "the most important work on stigma in more than half a century.""--