Complements the film series

[vc_row background=”rgba(0,91,13,0.01)”][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_separator][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Synopsis” alignment=”center”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_separator][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Afflictions: Steps Towards a Visual Psychological Anthropology is one of the first books to integrate psychological and medical anthropology with the methodologies of visual anthropology, specifically ethnographic film. It discusses and complements the work presented in Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia, the first film series on psychiatric disorders in the developing world, in order to explore pertinent issues in the cross-cultural study of mental illness and advocate for the unique role film can play both in the discipline and in participants’ lives.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Through ethnographically rich and self-reflexive discussions of the films, their production, and their impact, the book at once provides theoretical and practical guidance, encouragement, and caveats for students and others who may want to make such films.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row background=”rgba(0,91,13,0.05)”][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_separator][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_text_separator title=”Part of the Culture, Mind and Society Series” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]

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This body of work is an extraordinary contribution to medical and psychological anthropology and cultural psychiatry. This book complements the films and goes beyond them to reveal the filmmaker’s challenges, strategies and reflections on the situated nature, ethics and pragmatics of storytelling through film. Together, the films and book provide exceptional resources for teaching and learning anthropology and psychiatry.”

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“… Afflictions demonstrates the transformative potential of joining ethnographic film and writing for exploring [investigating, understanding] the psychological complexity of living with what we call “mental illnesses” over time in distinctive cultural worlds… constitutes ‘visual psychological anthropology’ as a vibrant new subdiscipline and model for person-centered ethnography…  provides the potential for re-imagining how psychological anthropology can be done…”

—Byron J. Good, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/6″][vc_column_text]“This is a ground-breaking volume, detailing how visual anthropology can be used to study and teach about mental disorders in cross-cultural perspective. The authors combine expertise in the visual modality with deep knowledge of ethnography and psychological anthropology […]. This is an intellectual tour de force, which should have wide appeal across multiple disciplines.”

—Devon E. Hinton, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, USA, and Co-editor of Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_separator][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/6″][vc_column_text]“This book offers much-needed direction for the integration of ethnographic film in our work […]. A must read for students of anthropology. We will all refer to it often.”

—Jill E. Korbin, Director at the Schubert Center for Child Studies at Case Western Reserve University, USA, and Co-Editor of the Handbook of Child Well Being: Theories, Methods, and Policies in Global Perspective[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/6″][vc_column_text]“Afflictions is a game changer in psychological anthropology, irrefutably illustrating the importance of ethnographic film as a central medium for a holistic understanding of human experience.”

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