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A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan

By Karen Nakamura
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By Karen Nakamura

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"This is a terrific book: moving, clear, and compassionate. It not only illustrates the way psychiatric illness is shaped by culture, but also suggests that social environments can be used to improve the course and outcome of the illness. Well worth reading."

— T. M. Luhrmann, author of Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist looks at American Psychiatry

Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia an...

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