Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Grinker, Roy Richard
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Grinker, Roy Richard

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums....
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Author: Roy Richard Grinker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Grinker, Roy Richard

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

$72.99 $37.69
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Grinker, Roy Richard

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

$72.99 $37.69
Author: Roy Richard Grinker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

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.

Nobody's Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness, that we learn from within our communities, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first century, mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human diversity.

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, Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of, and variances in, our cultural response to neurodiversity.

Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately hopeful, Nobody's Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma.



Author: Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/12/2022
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.72w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9781324020134

About the Author
Grinker, Roy Richard: - Roy Richard Grinker is professor of anthropology and international affairs at the George Washington University. He is the author of several books, including Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism. He lives in Washington, DC.
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