A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan

Author/Contributor(s):	Nakamura, Karen
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	05/15/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for people with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Using a unique, community approach to psychosocial recovery, Bethel House focuses as much on social integration as on therapeutic work. As a centerpiece of this...