1st Edition
Madness and Subjectivity A Cross-Cultural Examination of Psychosis in the West and India
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: INSIDE SCHIZOPHRENIA -- A HOUSE OF MIRRORS
CHAPTER 3: THE ‘UNALIENATED’ ALIEN: SCHIZOPHRENIC AS A HYPER-MODERN SUBJECT
CHAPTER 4: DEITIES AND DESIRE – AN ANALYSIS
CHAPTER 5: THE SLIP AND THE SANE: AN ANALYSIS OF SUBJECTIVITY
CHAPTER 6: CASE AND POINT: THE GIRL CHILD’S STORY
CHAPTER 7: NO COUNTRY FOR PSYCHOLOGY
REFERENCES
Biography
Ayurdhi Dhar, Ph.D., is an instructor of psychology at the University of West Georgia. She has taught psychology in the United States and in India, where she also worked as a psychotherapist. Her research interests include the relation between schizophrenia and immigration, discursive practices sustaining the concept of mental illness, and critiques of acontextual and ahistorical forms of knowledge. She spends her time negotiating the guilt of being an ardent animal lover and meat eater.
