Crazy like us
the globalization of the American psyche
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Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecrazylikeusgloba0000watt_y8c8
- ISBN-139781416587088
- ISBN-10141658708X
- LibraryThing9418084
- Goodreads6402564
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- Library of Congress Control Number2009030661
- OCLC Control Number893690114
- OCLC Control Number310397910
- Better World Books9781416587088
- Open LibraryOL23654970M
Classifications
- DDC616.89
- LCCRC455.4.E8 W38 2010
- LCCRC455.4.E8W38 2010
Description
The most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture across the globe has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters, but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself. 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.
Description
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.
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- Cross-cultural studies
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