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DECONSTRUCTING MENTAL ILLNESS:
An Ethnography of Psychiatry, Women and the Family, by Renu
Addlakha
[available with Zubaan Books, Delhi, 2008]
Drawing from feminist, post
modern, cultural and sociological and medical anthropological
literature, this work shows the complex inter twining of illness
and culture in the context of mental disorder.
The ethnographic context of
the study is the interface between mental health professionals,
patients and their families in a local psychiatric hospital in
New Delhi. The book anchors the discussion around feminist
thinking and praxis in the mental health realm, along with the
traditions of cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology.
Deconstructing Mental Illness
is relevant and contemporary, and makes an important health and
women. This important new work extends the frontiers of social
science research and offers alternative perspectives on women,
health and disability.
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