Mental health in the war on terror : culture, science, and statecraft / Neil Krishan Aggarwal.

By:

Aggarwal, Neil Krishan [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780231538442
0231538448
0231166648
9780231166645

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mental Health in the War on Terror : Culture, Science, and Statecraft.DDC classification:

616.890086/97 23

LOC classification:

RC451.4.P7 A34 2015eb

NLM classification:

WA 305 AA1

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Contents:

Mental Health, Culture, and Power in the War on Terror -- Bioethics and the Conduct of Mental Health Professionals in the War on Terror -- The Meanings of Symptoms and Services for Guantánamo Detainees -- Depictions of Arabs and Muslims in Psychodynamic Scholarship -- Depictions of Suicide Bombers in the Mental Health Scholarship -- Knowledge and Practice in War on Terror Deradicalization Programs.

Summary: This study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism, and in the process, psychiatrists and psychologists have either worked uncritically to protect state interests or labored to protect undesirable populations from state control. Professional interpretation, like all interpretations, is subject to cultural forces. Drawing on cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, the author analyzes the influence of the war on terror in the transformation of definitions for normal and abnormal behavior.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This study finds that mental-health and biomedical professionals have created new forms of knowledge and practice in their desire to understand and fight terrorism, and in the process, psychiatrists and psychologists have either worked uncritically to protect state interests or labored to protect undesirable populations from state control. Professional interpretation, like all interpretations, is subject to cultural forces. Drawing on cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology, the author analyzes the influence of the war on terror in the transformation of definitions for normal and abnormal behavior.

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