{"product_id":"a-disability-of-the-soul-9780801451928","title":"A Disability of the Soul","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique, community approach to psychosocial recovery, Bethel House focuses as much on social integration as on therapeutic work. As a centerpiece of this...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn every respect, Nakamura has produced two films and a book that work against stigma and call attention to mental illness as a disability and to the humanity of those who suffer from it. These texts will be of broad interest beyond the world of Japan studies, particularly to clinicians and human rights activists who are looking for ways to do better for the mentally ill.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Amy Borovoy * The Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in plain language and told in a narrative style, accompanied by a DVD containing two documentary videos and filled with a host of pictures, this easily accessible and deeply engaging work combines broad historical, social, and cultural context with intimate personal experiences and poignantly articulated vignettes to immerse the reader in the lives of members of Bethel House, the professional staff who work with them and the residents of the town of Urakawa located on the island of Hokkaido, Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Michael Rembis * Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan\u003c\/i\u003e, anthropologist and professor of East Asian Studies, Karen Nakamura provides the type of thick description and careful analysis called for by Mehrotra [author of \u003ci\u003eDisability, Gender and State Policy: Exploring Margins\u003c\/i\u003e]. Written in plain language and told in a narrative style... this easily accessible and deeply engaging work combines broad historical, social, and cultural context with intimate personal experiences and poignantly articulated vignettes to immerse the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e * disability studies quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Arrivals\u003ci\u003eLife Story 1. Memory and Catharsis: Kiyoshi's Story\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 2. Psychiatry in Japan\u003ci\u003eLife Story 2. Coming of Age in Japan: Rika's Story\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 3. Christianity in Japan and the Establishment of Hokkaido\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4. The Founding of Bethel\u003ci\u003eLife Story 3. UFOs and Other Mass Delusions: Kohei's Story\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 5. The Doctor and the Hospital\u003ci\u003eLife Story 4.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e37 Years of Institutionalization: Why Did Yuzuru Never Want to Leave the Hospital?\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 6. Bethel Therapies\u003ci\u003eLife Story 5. Peer Support and a Meaningful Life: Gen's Story\u003c\/i\u003eChapter 7. DeparturesChapter 8. Beyond Bethel: A Postscript\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405138764119,"sku":"9780801451928","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801451928.jpg?v=1730488845","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-disability-of-the-soul-9780801451928","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}