Crazy like us : the globalization of the American psyche

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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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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Watters, Ethan (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Free Press, 2010
Edition:	First Free Press hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Mental illness > Cross-cultural studies. Psychology, Pathological > Cross-cultural studies. Mental illness > United States. Globalization > Psychological aspects. Psychiatric epidemiology. Mental illness. Cross-cultural studies. Mental Disorders. Cross-Cultural Comparison. Internationality. Mental disorders. Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

The rise of anorexia in Hong Kong
The wave that brought PTSD to Sri Lanka
The shifting mask of schizophrenia in Zanzibar
The mega-marketing of depression in Japan
Conclusion : the global economic crisis and the future of mental illness.