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Crazy like us the globalization of the American psyche

Journalist Watters explores the American exportation of how the world goes mad, arguing that as we introduce Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases.

Main Author:	Watters, Ethan (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Free Press, 2011
Edition:	First Free Press trade paperback edition.
Subjects:	Mental illness > Cross-cultural studies. Psychology, Pathological > Cross-cultural studies. Mental illness > United States. Globalization > Psychological aspects. Psychiatric epidemiology. Mental Disorders Cross-Cultural Comparison. Internationality.

Summary:	Journalist Watters explores the American exportation of how the world goes mad, arguing that as we introduce Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases.
Physical Description:	vii, 307 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-291) and index.
ISBN:	1416587098 (pbk.) 9781416587095 (pbk.)
Author Notes:	Ethan Watters is the author of Urban Tribes , an examination of the mores of the "never-marrieds," and the coauthor of Making Monsters , a groundbreaking indictment of the recovered memory movement. A frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine , Discover , Men's Journal , Wired , and This American Life, he lives in San Francisco with his wife and children.

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