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Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness | Roy Richard Grinker
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A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobodys Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigmafrom the eighteenth century, through Americas major wars, and into todays high-tech economy. Nobodys Normal argues that stigma is a social process that can be explained through cultural history, a process that began the moment we defined mental illness, that we learn from within our communities, and that we ultimately have the power to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today, Grinker writes that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalization of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first century, mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human diversity. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his familys four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfathers analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughters experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of, and variances in, our cultural response to neurodiversity. Urgent, eye-opening, and ultimately hopeful, Nobodys Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma.
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An interesting look at the concept of mental illness in history and culture, and the implications of stigma on wellbeing.

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