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Disturbing spirits : mental illness, trauma, and treatment in modern Syria and Lebanon / Beverly A. Tsacoyianis

Author
Tsacoyianis, Beverly A.
Published
Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- One Vernacular Healing in Greater Syria -- Two The Origins of Greater Syrian Medical Institutions -- Three Medical Missionaries and the Lebanon Mental Hospital, 1899-1983 -- Four Secular Healing and Ibn Sina Mental Hospital, 1922-2018 -- Five Literature, Civil War, and (Ef)facing Syrianand Lebanese History -- Conclusion: On Pain, Surviving, Coping,and Healing -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 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."--
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9780268200749 epub
0268200742 epub
9780268200718 (WebPDF)
0268200718 (WebPDF)
0268200726 (hardback)
9780268200725 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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