Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Understanding Madness
Course Code
KSK_116
Branch of Science
Social Anthropology; Sociology and social work
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Psychology; Public Health; Social Anthropology
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Agita Lūse
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
Objective
To raise awareness of mental health and illness as socio-cultural processes by presenting the diversity of explanations of insanity, mental, emotional and psychosocial disorders found in different societies and historical periods, as well as the multiple forms of communication between sufferers, healers and the surrounding society.
Preliminary Knowledge
Prior basic knowledge of social sciences.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.By analysing a range of anthropological and interdisciplinary studies, students are able to compare the diversity of perceptions and treatment of mental disorders across societies and eras; explain the impact of ethnicity, gender and socio-economic status on the expression and treatment of mental distress; recognise theoretical orientations that view mental disorders as a socio-cultural process.
Skills
1.Students are able to integrate theoretical insights about insanity as a cultural phenomenon with data from medical anthropology, social history and sociology about ideas, attitudes and practices in cases of mental disorders; to explain the perspectives of both professionals and lay people on the causes and consequences of mental suffering in the prism of ethnographic data; explain the cultural-historical and social contexts of treatment and healing practices.
Competences
1.Be able to make reasoned judgements based on ethnographic, biographical, sociological and social historical data about the experience, recognition and treatment of forms of mental distress; interpret media discourses about mental and psychosocial disorders; critically analyse forms of mental health care; characterise psychiatry as a discipline rooted in a particular culture and its values and historically changing.
Assessment
Individual work
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Students independently study the required readings for each lesson topic. They write a reflection paper on the sources for topics 1 and 2. For each seminar lesson (topics 3-6), they prepare a discussion on the general issues of the topic and make a presentation (10-15 min) on one of the relevant ethnographic texts. At the end of the course, write an 800-1000 word argumentative essay or case study (see "Course Examinations"). In preparation for face-to-face classes, use the resources available in the university's online databases or visit the library. More specific assignments are specified each year and are outlined on the e-learning platform.
In order to assess the overall quality of the course, the student is required to fill in a course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal.
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Examination
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The course test has two options: either (A) an argumentative essay of 800-1000 words or (B) a case study, also of 800-1000 words.
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Seminar presentations make up 30% of the coursework, the reflection paper 20% and a written coursework (essay or case study) 50%.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Mental suffering and insanity as sociocultural phenomena. Theoretical approaches.
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Mental suffering and insanity as sociocultural phenomena. Theoretical approaches.
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Cross-cultural psychiatry as a research direction. Wars and forced migration - catalysts of mental suffering.
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Cross-cultural psychiatry as a research direction. Wars and forced migration - catalysts of mental suffering.
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How does a sufferer become a patient? Construction of cases. Objectivity and subjectivity in disease communication.
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Mental suffering in the context of family, ethnic and religious affiliation and social status.
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The social life of psychoactive substances. Care and care in the perspective of neoliberalism.
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The social life of psychoactive substances. Care and care in the perspective of neoliberalism.
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Changes in the understanding of mental health in post-socialist countries.
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Changes in the understanding of mental health in post-socialist countries.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
24 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Foucault, M. 2009. History of madness. J. Khalfa (ed.). Routledge, Pp. 463-511. (Hrestomātisks nozares avots; nesens, jauns un paplašināts tulkojums no franču valodas). (Arī ārvalstu studentiem).
2.
Goffman, E. 2017. Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. Taylor and Francis. Pp.125-170. (Hrestomātisks nozares avots). (Arī ārvalstu studentiem).
3.
Gaines, A. D. 1992. Ethnopsychiatry. The Cultural Construction of Professional and Folk Psychiatries. Albany: State University of New York Press, Pp. 3-50, 69-84. (Hrestomātisks medicīnas antropoloģijas avots). (Arī ārvalstu studentiem).
4.
Sparti, Davide. 2001. "Making up People". European Journal of Social Theory 4 (3) (24. augustā): 331–349. doi:10.1177/13684310122225154. (Apskats par fundamentālu filozofisku pieeju kursa priekšmetam). (Arī ārvalstu studentiem).
5.
Rogers, A. 2021. A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (D. Pilgrim & D. Pilgrim (eds.)). 6th Ed. Open University Press. Pp. 1-22. (Arī ārvalstu studentiem).
6.
Barrett, R. J. 2016. The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia: An Anthropological Study of Person and Illness. Cambridge University Press. Pp.1-21, 107-142. (Hrestomātisks medicīnas antropoloģijas teksts). (Arī ārvalstu studentiem).
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Littlewood, R., & Lipsedge, M. 1997. Aliens and alienists : ethnic minorities and psychiatry. Routledge. Pp. 210-231. (Hrestomātisks medicīnas antropoloģijas teksts). (Arī ārvalstu studentiem).
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Young, A. 1995. The harmony of illusions : inventing post-traumatic stress disorder. Princeton University Press. Pp.176-223. (Hrestomātisks medicīnas antropoloģijas teksts). (Arī ārvalstu studentiem).
Additional Reading
1.
Kilshaw, Susie. 2009. Impotent warriors : Gulf War syndrome, vulnerability and masculinity. Berghahn Books.
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Matza, Tomas Antero. 2018. Shock therapy : psychology, precarity, and wellbeing in postsocialist Russia. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
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Skultans, Vieda. 2011. Empathy and Healing : Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology. Berghahn Books, Inc.
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Szasz, T. S. 1971. The Manufacture of Madness. A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
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Busfield, J. 2002. "The archeology of psychiatric disorder," in Gender, Health and Healing: The public/private divide. Edited by G. Bendelow, M. Carpenter, C. Voutier, and S. Williams, pp. 144-162. London: Routledge.
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Crossley, N. 2006. Contesting Psychiatry. Social Movements in mental health. London & New York: Routledge.
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Foucault, M. 2006. Psychiatric Power. Lectures at the College de France 1973-74. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Healy, D. 1997. The Antidepressant Era. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
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Jamison, K. R. 1995. An Unquiet Mind. A Memoir of Moods and Madness. London: Picador.
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Kakar, S. 1982. Shamans, Mystics and Doctors. A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions. London, Boston, Sydney: Unwin Paperbacks.
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Kleinman, A., and B. Good. Editors. 1985. Culture and Depression, Comparative Studies of health systems and medical care. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Laing, R. D. 1985. Wisdom, Madness and Folly. The Making of a Psychiatrist 1927-1957. London & Basingstoke: Macmillan.
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Littlewood, R. 2002. Pathologies of the West. An Anthropology of Mental Illness in Europe and America. London: Continuum.
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Luhrmann, T. M. 2001. Of Two Minds. An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry. New York: Vintage Books.
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Lūse, A. 2007. "Patības balss un cēloņsakarību atbalss stāstos par krīzes pieredzi," in Dzīvesstāsti: vēsture, kultūra, sabiedrība. Edited by M. Zirnīte, pp. 269-283. Rīga: "Dzīvesstāsts" & LU Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts. (latviešu plūsmai)
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Porter, R. 2002. Madness: A Brief History. Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press.
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Sedgwick, P. 1982. Psycho Politics. The Politics of Health. London: Pluto Press.
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Stastny, P., and P. Lehmann. Editors. 2007. Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry. Berlin: Peter Lehmann Publishing.
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Slater, L. 1997. Welcome to my country. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
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Stoppard, J., and L. M. McMullen. Editors. 2003. Situating Sadness. Women and Depression in Social Context. New York, London: New York University Press.
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Jenkins, J. H. 2018. Anthropology and Psychiatry. A Contemporary Convergence for Global Mental Health. In D. Bhugra K. Bhui (Eds.), Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry. Cambridge University Press. Pp.18-34.
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Friedman, Jack R. 2016. "“A world crazier than us”: Vanishing social contexts and the consequences for psychiatric practice in contemporary Romania". Transcultural Psychiatry 53 (2): 176–197. (Individuālajiem uzdevumiem).
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Yankovskyy, Shelly. 2016. "Political and economic transformations in Ukraine: The view from psychiatry". Transcultural Psychiatry 53 (5): 612–629. doi:10.1177/1363461516660900. (Individuālajiem uzdevumiem).
24.
Luhrmann, Tanya M. 2016. Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia across Cultures. Vol. 11. 1st ed. Berkerley: University of California Press. Pp. 99-126. (Individuālajiem uzdevumiem).
25.
Jenkins, J. 2015. Extraordinary conditions. 1st ed. University of California Press. Chapter 1. "Cultural Chemistry in the Clozapine Clinic". Pp. 23-70. (Individuālajiem uzdevumiem).
26.
Kitanaka, Junko. 2015. ‘The Rebirth of Secrets and the New Care of the Self in Depressed Japan’. Current Anthropology. 56(S12), pp. S251–S262. (Individuālajiem uzdevumiem).
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Derrien, Marie. 2016. "“Entrenched from life”: The impossible reintegration of traumatized French veterans of the great war". No Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War, sast. Jason Crouthamel un Leese Peter, 193–214. Springer International Publishing. (Individuālajiem uzdevumiem).
28.
Horwitz, A. V. 2017. An Overview of Sociological Perspectives on the Definitions, Causes, and Responses to Mental Health and Illness. In E. R. Wright & T. L. Scheid (Eds.), A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems (3rd ed., pp. 6–19). Cambridge University Press.