ANT 3132 Psychological Anthropology
3 units
Anthropology
Faculty of Social Sciences
The study of personhood, the self, and identity as historically specific concepts, and the emotions as culturally determined. Transcultural psychiatry and ethnopsychology as questioning ideas of pathological and abnormal behaviours. A view of biomedical understandings of mental illness as cultural constructs with a challenge to the universal validity of diagnostic categories and conventional understandings of depression, schizophrenia, and traumatic disorders. The psychological sciences as objects of anthropological inquiry and a critique of dominant psycho pharmaceutical approaches and the medicalization of normality. The complex relationship between mind, brain, and culture.
Components:
Lecture
Requirements:
Prerequisite: 9 course units in anthropology (ANT) or 54 university course units. Previously ANT 4132.
Previously Offered Terms:
Fall
Winter
French Equivalent:
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