A Disability of the Soul : : An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan /

A Disability of the Soul : : An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan / / Karen Nakamura.

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Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique, community approach to psychosocial recovery, Bethel House focuses as much on social integration as on the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Nakamura, Karen,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2017
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 31 b&w halftones, 1 line drawing, 2 maps, 2 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Language
  • Chapter One. Arrivals
  • Chapter Two. Psychiatry in Japan
  • Chapter Three. Hokkaido and Christianity
  • Chapter Four. The Founding of Bethel
  • Chapter Five. The Doctor and the Hospital
  • Chapter Six. Bethel Therapies
  • Chapter Seven. Departures
  • Chapter Eight. Beyond Bethel. A Postscript
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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