And now, this week's episode:Crazy Like Us?
How did depression come to be marketed to the Japanese as the "Cold of the Soul"?Has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) become the Western "lingua franca of human suffering"?
Why didn't anorexia nervosa, as it's experienced in countries like America & Australia, appear to exist in China 15 years ago?
How should the world meet the psychosocial (as distinct from the material) needs of Pakistanis in the face of the horror floods?
Can the human psyche be globalised in the way that fashion and fast food have been?
Journalist Ethan Watters, author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalisation of the American Psyche, is my guest on the show this week.
Tune in on-air or on the All in the Mind website, where you'll find lots of relevant stories from the show archives, and take the opportunity to comment directly there too (click on Add Your Comment).
Ethan is up for participating in any discussion that unfolds - so, go for it!
if you want to delve further, there's a video of Ethan Watters over at ABC's Big Ideas, and here's an excerpt from his book in The New York Times.
And some extra audio from the conversation we shared, as promised (will make more sense after you hear the show):
Schizophrenia in Zanzibar
"Culture bound" syndromes?
Trauma checklists that forget culture
The psychiatrist in the family
Crazy Like Us - The Globalisation of the American Psyche
Listen Now - 2010-08-28 |Download Audio - 28082010
"Would you like fries with that?" America's big brands and fast food outlets have become the dominant signatures of globalisation. But is mental illness becoming another? Is West best when it comes to the diagnosis, definition and treatment of mental illness? Ethan Watters unearths a disturbing trend, which could inform how we respond to disasters like the devastating Pakistan floods.
Transcripts are published on Wednesdays. Audio directly after broadcast on Saturdays.
Guests
Ethan Watters
Journalist and author
http://crazylikeus.com/AUTHOR_BIO.htmlFurther Information
All in the Mind Blog with Natasha Mitchell
Includes extra audio of the conversation with Ethan WattersA Mental Health Odyssey in India: Part 1 of 4
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2003A Mental Health Odyssey in India: Part 2 of 4
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2003A Mental Health Odyssey in India: Part 3 of 4
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2003A Mental Health Odyssey in India: Part 4 of 4
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2003Troubled Minds - ABC Science Online feature (Natasha Mitchell 2003)
All in the Mind, ABC Radio NationalDrug and alcohol abuse: The refugee experience
All in the Mind, ABC Radio NationalAceh's Psychological Recovery
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2005Burma: 'I resist in my mind only'
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2007Disease of the Split Soul: Schizophrenia in Japan
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2002On the Couch After Mao - Therapy in Modern China
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2004Trauma and transition: Mental health in Iraq
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2004Disembodied brains, culture and science: Indigenous lives under gaze (Part 1 of 2
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2008Disembodied brains, culture and science: Indigenous lives under gaze (Part 2 of 2)
All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2008Publications
Title: Crazy Like Us: The Globalisation of the American Psyche
Author: Ethan Watters
Publisher: Scribe, 2010Title: Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, And Sexual Hysteria
Author: Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters
Publisher: University of California Press, 1996Title: Therapy's Delusions: The Myth of the Unconsious and the Exploitation of Today's Walking Worried
Author: Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters
Publisher: Scribner, 1999 (ISBN 0684835843)Presenter
Natasha Mitchell
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