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Ethan Watters: The Globalization of the American Psyche

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Ethan Watters: The Culturally Specific Nature of Trauma

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Ethan Watters, author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, describes the relationship between psychological healing and a culture's sense of the self.

"These ideas of the mind are predictive," he says, "and they are all also tied to culturally specific ways of healing."
Ethan Watters: Is Mental Illness Contagious?

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Journalist Ethan Watters speculates about the contagiousness of mental illness, citing the hysteria that afflicted thousands of women during the Victorian era.

"This is a matter of the unconscious mind, at any moment of time and culture, looking to speak the language of suffering for its moment in time," he says.
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Henry Reines

Posted: 03.02.10, 07:51 PM

Superb treatise on the impact of the dynamics of psychology described by Carl Jung. Read Memories, Dreams, & Reflections. Please... put the "Psyche" back in Psychology.

nikonwilly

Posted: 02.19.10, 04:24 PM

Look at the statistics from 1960 to the present, simply amazing!

goulniky

Posted: 02.16.10, 08:52 PM

It's not just that industry is exporting US concepts to Japan or other countries / cultures. It actually participates, along with other groups in creating many of these, starting with the US, something that has been called ' disease mongering '. ADHD is case in point (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)