The globalization of the american psyche, ethan watters reveals how american psychological solutions, when applied to foreign cultures, have actually propagated american. Ethan watters, writer of the essay the megamarketing of depression in japan, describes how cultural differences highly influence the way people understand depression. Free pressthis is the kind of book that is likely to get up quite a few peoples nosesthe author wont be at all dismayed. According to watters, the often enthusiastic international reception of dsmiii and iv has homogenized human suffering all over the world. In 2012 i took an abnormal psychology class at ccsf. The globalization of the american psyche 2010, free press. Author ethan watters thinks that america is homogenizing the way the world goes mad.
Like in the cosmology of western christians, lifes challenges provide opportunities to become stronger and to have a closer relationship with god. The globalization of the american psyche, san francisco writer ethan watters sheds light on an interesting and. Author ethan watters discusses crazy like us youtube. Crazy like us download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. In crazy like us, ethan watters moves beyond a cultural commodities focus to address the homogenization of modern theories and treatments surrounding mental illness. The globalization of the american psyche ebook written by ethan watters. Crazy like us is a grand tour of the new global psyche, distorted and. America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories of the human psyche. Crazy like us the globalization of the american psyche. In crazy like us, ethan watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of american culture has not been its golden arches or bomb craters, but the bulldozing of the human psyche itself. Watters, crazy like us ethan watters looks at the impact of our mental health system on the rest of the world.
The globalization of the american psyche 20100421 22. This globalization of the american psyche, he argues, is the most dangerous of north american exports. 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. The globalization of the american psyche kindle edition by watters, ethan. Ethan watters brilliantly surveys the stark interior cost of globalization, from our export of stress disorders to sri lanka to our marketing of depression in japan as a cold of the soul. The book is a sustained critique of the biomedicalization and.
Crazy like us the globalization of american psyche ethan. Journalist watters explores the american exportation of how the world goes mad, arguing that as we introduce americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases. Cultures become vulnerable to new beliefs about the mind and madness during times of social anxiety and discord, p. The globalization of the american psyche free press.
Previously we looked at anorexia in hong kong and ptsd in sri lanka. Watters third example of the export of western ideas about mental illness focuses on schizophrenia in zanzibar. Learn more about crazy like us at ethan watters explores the american exportation of how the world goes mad. The company glaxosmithkline aims to successfully alter the cultural beliefs of depression. He is the author of articles for the new york times magazine, spin, details, mother jones, glamour, gq, esquire, and the san francisco chronicle magazine as well as books. A frequent contributor to the new york times magazine, discover, mens journal, wired, and this american life, he lives in san francisco with his wife and children. In crazy like us, ethan watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of us culture has been the bulldozing of the human psyche itself. We are in the process of homogenizing the way the world goes mad. My honors project was a response paper to the book crazy like us. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read crazy like us. In crazy like us the globalization of the american psyche by ethan watters, the author describes how western pharmaceutical companies created a new understanding of mental illness in japan. We are flattening the landscape of the human psyche, warns ethan watters in crazy like us.
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