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Mental health in the war on terror : culture, science, and statecraft / Neil Krishan Aggarwal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231538442
  • 0231538448
  • 0231166648
  • 9780231166645
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mental Health in the War on Terror : Culture, Science, and Statecraft.DDC classification:
  • 616.890086/97 23
LOC classification:
  • RC451.4.P7 A34 2015eb
NLM classification:
  • WA 305 AA1
Online resources:
Contents:
Mental Health, Culture, and Power in the War on Terror -- Bioethics and the Conduct of Mental Health Professionals in the War on Terror -- The Meanings of Symptoms and Services for Guantánamo Detainees -- Depictions of Arabs and Muslims in Psychodynamic Scholarship -- Depictions of Suicide Bombers in the Mental Health Scholarship -- Knowledge and Practice in War on Terror Deradicalization Programs.
Summary: This study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism, and in the process, psychiatrists and psychologists have either worked uncritically to protect state interests or labored to protect undesirable populations from state control. Professional interpretation, like all interpretations, is subject to cultural forces. Drawing on cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, the author analyzes the influence of the war on terror in the transformation of definitions for normal and abnormal behavior.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed on December 23, 2014).

Mental Health, Culture, and Power in the War on Terror -- Bioethics and the Conduct of Mental Health Professionals in the War on Terror -- The Meanings of Symptoms and Services for Guantánamo Detainees -- Depictions of Arabs and Muslims in Psychodynamic Scholarship -- Depictions of Suicide Bombers in the Mental Health Scholarship -- Knowledge and Practice in War on Terror Deradicalization Programs.

This study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism, and in the process, psychiatrists and psychologists have either worked uncritically to protect state interests or labored to protect undesirable populations from state control. Professional interpretation, like all interpretations, is subject to cultural forces. Drawing on cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, the author analyzes the influence of the war on terror in the transformation of definitions for normal and abnormal behavior.

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