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Title Nobody's normal : how culture created the stigma of mental illness / Roy Richard Grinker.
Publisher New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Description xxxii, 409 pages ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.


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 DX-Room 320 - Adult  616.89 GRI Nearby on shelf  3 1974 02115 0585 09-02-22  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "A compassionate and eye-opening examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma--from the eighteenth century, through America's major wars, and into today's high-tech economy. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family's four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather's analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter's experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Nobody's Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma. The preeminent historian of medicine, Sander Gilman, calls Nobody's Normal "the most important work on stigma in more than half a century.""-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Mental illness -- History.
Mentally ill -- History.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- History.
Other title How culture created the stigma of mental illness
ISBN 9780393531640
0393531643