EAN: 9781324020134

NOBODYS NORMAL - ROY RICHARD GRINKER TASCHENBUCH

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 stigma-from the eighteenth
century into today's high-tech economy. Nobody's Normal argues that stigma is a social process
that can be explained through cultural history  a process that began the moment we defined
mental illness  that we learn from within our communities and that we ultimately have the power
to change. Though the legacies of shame and secrecy are still with us today  Grinker writes
that we are at the cusp of ending the marginalisation of the mentally ill. In the twenty-first
century  mental illnesses are fast becoming a more accepted and visible part of human
diversity. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family's four generations
of involvement in psychiatry  including his grandfather's analysis with Sigmund Freud  his
daughter's experience with autism and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on
cutting-edge science  historical archives and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia 
Grinker takes readers on an international journey to discover the origins of  and variances in
our cultural response to neurodiversity. Urgent  eye-opening and ultimately hopeful  Nobody's
Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of
stigma.

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