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Crazy like us : the globalization of the American psyche / Ethan Watters.

Author: Watters, Ethan.

Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed.

Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2010.

ISBN: 9781416587088 :
141658708X

Description: vii, 306 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Mental illness Cross-cultural studies.
Psychology, Pathological Cross-cultural studies.
Mental illness United States.
Globalization Psychological aspects.
Psychiatric epidemiology.

Contents: The rise of anorexia in Hong Kong -- The wave that brought PTSD to Sri Lanka -- The shifting mask of schizophrenia in Zanzibar -- The mega-marketing of depression in Japan -- Conclusion : the global economic crisis and the future of mental illness.

Summary: Journalist Watters explores the American exportation of how the world goes mad, arguing that as we introduce Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases.

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