Culture, Mental Health, and Therapeutic Governance (A) SA 219 (4)

Explores social, cultural, economic and political underpinnings of mental distress and medical practices. Topics include somatization, medicalization, psychologization, global inequities, local desires, and the use of mental illness and psychology by states and institutions as technologies of governing. Attention given to how Indigenous psychology challenges universal claims of Euro-American psychology. Students who have taken SA 359 under the title "Culture, Mental Health, and Therapeutic Governance" in Fall 2017, Fall 2019, or Fall 2020 may not take this course further credit.