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Crazy like us

In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of US culture has been the bulldozing of the human psyche itself: the homogenizing the way the world goes mad.
Print Book, English, ©2010
Robinson, London, ©2010
Cross-cultural studies
vii, 307 pages ; 22 cm
9781849015776, 9781849019125, 1849015775, 1849019126
1012879139
The rise of anorexia in Hong Kong
The wave that brought PTSD to Sri Lanka
The shifting mask of schizophrenia in Zanzibar
The mega-marketing of depression in Japan
Conclusion : the global economic crisis and the future of mental illness
On cover: The globalisation of the western mind