
Published online:
18 May 2017
Published in print:
27 September 2016
Online ISBN:
9780520964945
Print ISBN:
9780520291089
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Chapter
Case 2 Diagnostic Neutrality in Psychiatric Treatment in North India
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42–55
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Published:September 2016
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Sousa, Amy June, 'Diagnostic Neutrality in Psychiatric Treatment in North India', in T.M. Luhrmann, and Jocelyn Marrow (eds), Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures (Oakland, CA , 2016; online edn, California Scholarship Online, 18 May 2017), https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520291089.003.0003, accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
In India, doctors deemphasize diagnoses and the biomedical specificities of what are essentially grave conditions, like schizophrenia. They don’t talk about diagnoses or treat diagnoses as important, at least when interacting with their patients. As a result, they leave many possible ways to imagine the future intact. This may widen the range of possibilities for living in the present. This chapter describes the way two sisters who each meet criteria for schizophrenia understand their problems.
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Medical Anthropology
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