Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Watters, Ethan

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

"A blistering and truly original work of reporting and analysis, uncovering America's role in homogenizing how the...
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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Watters, Ethan

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

$30.41

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

$30.41
Author: Ethan Watters
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"A blistering and truly original work of reporting and analysis, uncovering America's role in homogenizing how the world defines wellness and healing" (Po Bronson).

In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself: We are in the process of homogenizing the way the world goes mad.

It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for?

American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions, and the virus is us. Traveling from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka to Zanzibar to Japan, acclaimed journalist Ethan Watters witnesses firsthand how Western healers often steamroll indigenous expressions of mental health and madness and replace them with our own. In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been homogenizing the way the world goes mad.

Author: Ethan Watters
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 03/22/2011
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781416587095

About the Author
Ethan Watters is the author of Urban Tribes, an examination of the mores of the "never-marrieds," and the coauthor of Making Monsters, a groundbreaking indictment of the recovered memory movement. A frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Men's Journal, Wired, and This American Life, he lives in San Francisco with his wife and children.

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