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

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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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
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Publicatiejaar:2013
Taal:English
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  • 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