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.

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Main Author: Watters, Ethan (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Free Press, 2011
Edition:First Free Press trade paperback edition.
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505 0 |a Rise of anorexia in Hong Kong -- Wave that brought PTSD to Sri Lanka -- Shifting mask of schizophrenia in Zanzibar -- Mega-marketing of depression in Japan -- Global economic crisis and the future of mental illness. 
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650 0 |a Psychiatric epidemiology. 
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