Culture & Mental Health | Anthropology

Fall 2021

Culture and Mental Health: Decolonizing the Psyche

Listed in: Anthropology and Sociology, as ANTH-311

Faculty

Description

Are psychiatric disease categories and treatment protocols universally applicable? How can we come to understand the lived experience of mental illness and abnormality? And how can we trace the roots of such experience – whether through brain circuitry, cultural practices, forms of power, or otherwise? In this course, we will draw on psychological anthropology, cultural psychiatry, science studies, and decolonizing methodologies to examine mental health and illness in terms of subjective experience, social processes, and knowledge production. Our goal will be to recognize the centrality of the social world as a force that defines and drives the incidence, occurrence, and course of mental illness, as well as to appreciate the complex relationship between professional and personal accounts of disorder.

Limited to 18 students. Fall semester. Five College Assistant Professor Aulino.

Expectations

Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: emphasis on in-depth reading, writing, group presentations, and independent research Students with documented disabilities who will require accommodations in this course should be in consultation with Accessibility Services and reach out to the faculty member as soon as possible to ensure that accommodations can be made in a timely manner.

If Overenrolled: Preference to Anthropology majors

Keywords

Attention to Issues of Class, Attention to Issues of Gender and Sexuality, Attention to Issues of Race, Attention to Research, Attention to Speaking, Attention to Writing, Transnational or World Cultures Taught in English

Course times and locations

ANTH 311 - L/D

Section 01
M 01:30 PM - 04:00 PM WEBS 220

Offerings

2022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2021

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