Schizophrenia, culture, and subjectivity the edge of experience

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Foreword Arthur Kleinman Introduction Janis H. Jenkins and Robert J. Barrett Part I. Specifying Culture, Self and Experience: 1. Schizophrenia as a paradigm for understanding fundamental human processes Janis H. Jenkins 2. Interrogating 'culture' in the WHO International Studies of Schizophrenia Kim Hopper 3. Kurt Schneider in Borneo: do first rank symptoms apply to the Iban? Robert J. Barrett 4. Living through a staggering world: the play of signifiers in early psychosis in South India Ellen Corin, R. Thara and R. Padmavati 5. In and out of culture: ethnographic means to interpreting schizophrenia Rod Lucas Part II. Four Approaches: 6. Experiences of psychosis in Javanese culture: reflections on a case of acute, recurrent psychosis in contemporary Yogyakarta, Indonesia Byron Good and M. A. Subandi 7. To 'speak beautifully' in Bangladesh: subjectivity as pa/gala/mi James M. Wilce, Jr. 8. Innovative care for the homeless mentally ill in Bogota, Columbia Esperanza Diaz, Alberto Fergusson and John S. Strauss 9. Symptoms of colonialism: content and context of delusion in Southwest Nigeria, 1945-60 Jonathan Sadowsky Part III. Subjectivity and Emotion: 10. Madness in Zanzibar: an exploration of lived experience Juli H. McGruder 11. Subject/subjectiveness in dispute: the poetics, politics, and performance of first-person narratives of people with schizophrenia Sue E. Estroff 12. 'Negative symptoms', common sense, and cultural disembedding in the modern age Louis A. Sass 13. Subjective experience of emotion in schizophrenia Ann M. Kring and Marja K. Germans.