Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Roy Richard Grinker

Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Roy Richard Grinker

544 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction health psychology sociology challenging informative medium-paced

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For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness...

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