SCHEDULE OF TOPICS

WEEK ONE
Psychoanalytic approaches to mental illness.

1. Readings: Malcolm Gladwell, (4 Nov 1996) "The Science of Shopping". The New Yorker. , pp. 66-75.
2. Charles Brenner. (1973[1955]) An elementary textbook of psychoanalysis. New York: Doubleday. pp. 1-14.
3. Sigmund Freud. (1957[1917]) "Mourning and Melancholia."
4. Anna Freud. (1966) "The ego and the mechanisms of defense."
5. Robert Lindner. (1959) "The jet-propelled couch." In The Fifty-minute Hour.
6. Gregory Bateson, [1956] "Toward a theory of schizophrenia," in Steps to an Ecology of Mind. New York: Ballantine Books. pp. 201-227.
7. Melanie Klein. (1975 [1957]) "Envy and Gratitude" In Envy and Gratitude & other works 1946-1963 New York: Delta. pp. 176-235.

WEEK TWO
The major mental disorders: schizophrenia, major depression, & bipolar disorder; DSM-IV diagnosis, and biomedical approaches to mental illness.

Readings:
1. Susan Sheehan. Is there no place on earth for me? New York: Random House. pp. 3-37.
2. William Styron. (1990) Darkness Visible. New York: Random House. pp. 29-84.
3. Kay Redfield Jamison. (1995) An Unquiet Mind New York: Alfred A Knopf. pp. 67-123.
4. Hagop Akiskal. (?) "Chapter 16.1: Mood Disorders: introduction and overview" In Kaplan and Sadock: Comprehensive Handbook of Psychiatry pp. 1067-1079
5. William T. Carpenter, Jr. and Robert W. Buchanan. (?) "Chapter 14.1: Schizophrenia: introduction and overview" In Kaplan and Sadock: Comprehensive Handbook of Psychiatry pp. 889-902
6. Nancy Andreason and Donald W. Black. (1995) "Dissociative Disorders" In Introductory Textbook of Psychiatry. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press. pp. 363-374
7. C. Robert Cloninger, Dragan M. Srakic, and Thomas Pryzbeck. (1993) "A Psychobiological Model of Temperament and Character" In Archives of General Psychiatry. Vol. 50. December 1993. pp. 975-990.

WEEK THREE
How culture shapes emotion at a deep level.
Anger in the Arctic, moral anger in the Pacific.

Readings:
1. Jean Briggs. Never in Anger Cambridge: Harvard University Press. pp. 1-40, 109-175.
2. Catherine Lutz. Unnatural Emotions

WEEK FOUR
The Culture and Personality school: Mead and Benedict.
How society creates conflicts for people. How to be a gender deviant

Readings:
1. Margaret Mead. (1935) Sex and Temperament New York: William Morrow & Company. pp. 237-309.
2. Ruth Benedict. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Chs. 1, 3, 7-8, 10, 12.

WEEK FIVE
How to learn to be crazy.

Readings:
1. Erving Goffman. (1961) Asylums Garden City, NY: Doubleday. pp. 1-13.
2. Sue Estroff. (1981) Making it Crazy Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 3-67, 174-198, 240-248.
3. Models of the self, models of the person.
4. Readings: Marcel Mauss. (1985) "A category of the human mind: the notion of person; the notion of self" Translated by W. D. Halls, In The Category of the Person: anthropology, philosophy, history. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-25
5. Hazel Markus and Shinobu Kitayama. (1994) "A Collective Fear of the Collective: implications for selves and theories of selves" In PSPB (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin?) vol. 20, No. 5, October 1994. pp. 568-579.
6. Ulric Neisser. (1988) "Five Kinds of Self-Knowledge" In Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 35-59.
7. Daniel Stern. (1985) The Interpersonal World of the Infant: a view from psychoanalysis and developmental psychology New York: Basic Books. pp. 69-123
8. Jack Goody. (1977) The Domestication of the Savage Mind Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-18
9. Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne. (1991) "Does the concept of the person vary cross-culturally?" in Thinking Through Cultures: expeditions in cultural psychology. Richard A. Shweder, ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. pp. 113-155
10. Dorinne K. Kondo. (1990) Crafting Selves: power, gender, and discourses of identity in a Japanese workplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 3-48.
11. Clifford Geertz. (1983) "'From the Native's Point of View': on the nature of anthropological understanding" In Local Knowledge New York: Basic Books. pp. 55-70

WEEK SIX
Society resolves or at least manages conflict.
Mental illness and its prognosis

Readings:
1. Arthur Kleinman. (1986) Social origins of stress and disease: depression, neurasthenia, and pain in modern China New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 1-67, 143-179.
2. Warner. (1985) "Recovery from schizophrenia." Boston: Routledge. pp. 149-190.
3. Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics.

WEEK SEVEN
Shamanic healing and witchcraft accusation
Ancestor worship and religion

Readings:
1. Carol Laderman. "Taming the Wind of Desire: psychology, medicine, and aesthetics in Malay shamanistic performance." Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 3-14, 86-112.
2. Jon Christopher Crocker. Vital Souls: Bororo cosmology, natural symbolism, and shamanism. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. pp. 197-235.
3. Claude Levi-Strauss. "The effectiveness of symbols." In Structural Anthropology Garden City, NY: Doubleday. pp. 181-201.
4. ----. (1969 [1964]) The Raw and the Cooked pp. 1-32.
5. ----. (1969 [1949]) "The Archaic Illusion," In Elementary Structures of Kinship. pp. 84-97.
6. Audrey Richards. "A modern movement of witch-finders." Africa vol. 8, 1935, no 4. pp. 448-461.
7. Vincent Crapanzano. Tuhami: portrait of a Moroccan.

WEEK EIGHT
Religion as a culturally constituted defense mechanism.

Readings:
1. Meyer Fortes. (1970) "Pietas in ancestor worship." In Time and Social Structure and other essays. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 40. New York: Humanities Press. pp. 164-200.
2. Melford Spiro. (1987) "Religious systems as culturally constituted defense mechanisms." In Culture and Human Nature: theoretical papers of Melford E. Spiro. Benjamin Kilbourne and L. L. Langness (eds.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 145-160.
3. Mary Douglas. "The Abominations of Leviticus" In Purity and Danger

WEEK NINE
Possession and matted hair

Readings:
1. Edmund Leach. (1967) "Magical hair." In Myth and Cosmos. John Middleton (ed.) Austin: University of Texas Press. pp. 77-108.
2. Gananath Obeyesekere. (1981) Medusa's Hair. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 13-67, 169-182.
3. ----. The Work of Culture

WEEK TEN
Sociopsychological adaptation

Readings:
1. Erik Erikson. (1950) Childhood and Society (2nd ed.) New York: W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 247-274.
2. George E. Vaillant. (1977) Adaptation to Life Cambridge: Harvard University Press. pp. 13-29, 351-367.

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