| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This book investigates the psychological toll of conflict in the Middle East during the twentieth century, including discussion of how spiritual and religious frameworks influence practice and theory. The concept of mental health treatment in war-torn Middle Eastern nations is painfully understudied. In Disturbing Spirits, Beverly A. Tsacoyianis blends social, cultural, and medical history research methods with approaches in disability and trauma studies to demonstrate that the history of mental illness in Syria and Lebanon since the 1890s is embedded in disparate-but not necessarily mutually exclusive-ideas about legitimate healing. Tsacoyianis examines the encounters between "Western" psychiatry and local practices and argues that the attempt to implement "modern" cosmopolitan biomedicine for the last 120 years has largely failed-in part because of political instability and political traumas and in part because of narrow definitions of modern medicine that excluded spirituality and locally meaningful cultural practices."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mental illness -- Syria -- History.
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Mental illness. |
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Syria. |
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History. |
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Mental illness -- Lebanon -- History.
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Lebanon. |
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Mental illness -- Treatment -- Syria.
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Mental illness -- Treatment. |
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Mental illness -- Treatment -- Lebanon.
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HISTORY / Middle East / General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tsacoyianis, Beverly A. Disturbing Spirits. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2021 9780268200725 (DLC) 2021931605 (OCoLC)1190827074 |
| ISBN |
0268200718 |
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9780268200718 (electronic book) |
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0268200726 |
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9780268200725 |
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