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Anthropologists using the tool of #ethnography to gain understanding of treatment of severe #mental illness:

' a key ingredient in recovery is “giving people a chance to create meaning around their experience.” In contrast, ...most psychiatric treatment consists of heavily prescribed drugs that “dull the experience but are not helping people to do the deep mucking out of spiritual, emotional, and psychological work” that recovery requires.'

'..social and economic factors can often increase the risk of schizophrenia more than any known genetic influences. These factors range from living in an urban rather than a rural environment to being an immigrant, living in poverty, emotional and sexual abuse (especially in childhood), and parental death,..'

#schizophrenia #HearingVoices #biomedicine

https://www.sapiens.org/biology/schizophrenia-tangled-roots/