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Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2010. Australian ed.. Paperback, very good condition, minor edgewear. 306 pp. Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been its golden arches or bomb craters, but the bulldozing of the human psyche itself: it is in the process of homogenising the way the world goes mad. For the past 30 years, America has been the world leader in mental-health research, and Western definitions of mental illness are prevailing over indigenous beliefs around the globe. He travels from China to Tanzania to bring home an unsettling conclusion: as America introduces Westernised ways of treating mental illnesses, it is in fact spreading the diseases. In post-tsunami Sri Lanka, Watters reports on the Western trauma counsellors who, in their rush to help, inadvertently trampled local expressions of grief, suffering, and healing. In Japan, Watters reveals the truth about a multi-million-dollar campaign by one of the world's biggest…
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de Ethan Watters
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- Título Crazy Like Us: The Globalisation of the American Psyche
- Autor Ethan Watters
- Encuadernación unknown
- Páginas 320
- Editorial Scribe Publications
- Fecha de publicación 2010
- ISBN 9781921640643
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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche.
de Watters, Evan.
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- Australian ed.
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781921640643 / 1921640642
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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