Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Updated and Expanded | 
 enlarge | Author: Nancy Scheper-hughes
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 407
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0520224809
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.2094196
EAN: 9780520224803
Publication Date: January 1, 2001
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Condition: Cover tattered and slightly dirty. Library discard. Good shape, medium wear.
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TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDED
When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was published twenty years ago, it became an instant classic--a beautifully written study tracing the social disintegration of "Ballybran," a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. In this richly detailed and sympathetic book, Nancy Scheper-Hughes explores the symptoms of the community's decline: emigration, malaise, unwanted celibacy, damaging patterns of childrearing, fear of intimacy, suicide, and schizophrenia. Following a recent return to "Ballybran," Scheper-Hughes reflects in a new preface and epilogue on the well-being of the community and on her attempts to reconcile her responsibility to honest ethnography with respect for the people who shared their homes and their secrets with her.
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 Exposes wriggling psychic life under the Blarney Stone February 16, 2000
Joe O'Dea (San Francisco)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
A superb description and analysis of the pathologies in Irish styles of interaction, conversational and behavioural. Written by an American psycho-anthropologist conducting fieldwork in Ireland. Brings a detached eye to Irish patterns of conversation and communication. Should be required reading for Irish people seeking self understanding and insight into why their culture is how it is. Caused an uproar on publication - a recommendation in iself - not due to sensationalism, but because truth normally buried was painful when it emerged into the light of day.
 special case study with Gregory Bateson's Binding Bonding Theory June 7, 2006
Clear Pilot (Kali's Formulae, USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
well worth studying this book! Gives examples of the dynamic whole society maintenance of the status quo thru Bateson's Double-Bind theory of schizophrenia.
a good ethnography December 1, 2007
H. Peterson (S.L.C. utah usa)
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics is a good ethnography of the feild work done by Mrs. Hughes. She gives good deffinitions for the translated Irish words used. A good veiw into the life of the isolated mountain regions f the Dingle Peninsula
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