6-0110 MENTAL HEALTH: EVOLVING DIAGNOSES, EVOLVING STIGMAS

Sunday, November 20, 2011: 08:00-09:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

08:00

Prozàk Diaries: Post-Rupture Subjectivities and Psychiatric Futures

Orkideh Behrouzan (UTMB)

08:15

Life In An Era of Austerity: Stress, Coping and Political Organizing Among Pensioners In Neoliberal Romania

Gerard A Weber (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York)

08:30

The Legacy of "Lunacy": Mental Health Care, Stigma, and Policy In Accra, Ghana

Grace Kathryn Ryan (Brigham & Women's Hospital)

08:45

The World of Hospitalized Military Personnel In Greece: The Experience of Psychiatric Hospitalization During Military Service"

Charalampos T. Petras (Center of Psychosocial Care "Stirixis")

09:00

I Have a Disorder, I Am Not the Disorder: Mental Health and the Future of Adulthood

Thomas Walton (University of Minnesota)

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