{"product_id":"troubled-in-the-land-of-enchantment-9780520343528","title":"Troubled in the Land of Enchantment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this groundbreaking study based on five years of in-depth ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Troubled in the Land of Enchantment explores the well-being of adolescents hospitalized for psychiatric care in New Mexico. AnthropologistsJanis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas present a gripping picture of psychic distress, familial turmoil, and treatment under the regime of managed care that dominates the mental health care system. The authors make the case for the centrality of struggle in the lives of youth across an array of extraordinary conditions, characterized by personal anguish and structural violence. Critical to the analysis is the cultural phenomenology of existence disclosed through shifting narrative accounts by youth and their families as they grapple with psychiatric diagnosis, poverty, misogyny, and stigma in their trajectories through multiple forms of harm and sites of care.Jenkins andCsordas compellingly direct our attention to the conjunction of lived experi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations and Tables \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Prelude\u003cbr\u003e 1. Land of Enchantment, Land of Pain \u003cbr\u003e 2. Coming to the Hospital\u003cbr\u003e 3. Defining the Problem\u003cbr\u003e 4. Angry Boy, Angry Girl\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Experience of Psychiatric Treatment\u003cbr\u003e 6. Having a Life\u003cbr\u003e Closing Remarks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Methods and Procedures\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49914505298263,"sku":"9780520343528","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/troubled-in-the-land-of-enchantment-9780520343528","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}