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A disability of the soul : an ethnography of schizophrenia and mental illness in contemporary Japan / Karen Nakamura.
LIBRA RC439.5 .N35 2013 1 v. + DVD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nakamura, Karen, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mentally ill--Rehabilitation--Japan--Urakawa-chō.
- Mentally ill.
- Mentally ill--Rehabilitation.
- Schizophrenia--Social aspects.
- Mental illness--Social aspects.
- Japan--Urakawa-chō.
- Schizophrenics--Rehabilitation--Japan--Urakawa-chō.
- Schizophrenics.
- Schizophrenics--Rehabilitation.
- Community mental health services--Japan--Urakawa-chō.
- Community mental health services.
- Mental illness--Social aspects--Japan.
- Mental illness.
- Schizophrenia--Social aspects--Japan.
- Schizophrenia.
- Beteru no Ie (Urakawa-chō, Japan).
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 248 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm + 1 videodisc (53 minutes : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- 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. In A Disability of the Soul, Karen Nakamura explores how the members of this unique community struggle with their lives, their illnesses, and the meaning of community. Told through engaging historical narrative, insightful ethnographic vignettes, and compelling life stories, her account of Bethel House depicts its achievements and setbacks, its promises and limitations. The book is accompanied by a DVD containing two fascinating documentaries about Bethel made by the author-Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia in Northern Japan and A Japanese Funeral. A Disability of the Soul is a sensitive and multidimensional portrait of what it means to live with mental illness in contemporary Japan. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- [DVD] Bethel: community and schizophrenia in northern Japan A Japanese funeral / two films by Karen Nakamura.
- Arrivals. Memory and catharsis : Kiyoshi's story
- Psychiatry in Japan. Coming of age in Japan : Rika's story
- Hokkaido and Christianity
- The founding of Bethel. UFOs and other mass delusions : Kohei's story
- The doctor and the hospital. Thirty-seven years of institutionalization : why did Yuzuru never want to leave the hospital?
- Bethel therapies. Peer support and a meaningful life : Gen's story
- Departures
- Beyond Bethel : a postscript.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.
- Contains:
- Bethel, community and schizophrenia in Northern Japan.
- Funeral in Japan
- ISBN:
- 9780801451928
- 0801451922
- 9780801478611
- 0801478618
- OCLC:
- 858650009
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