Recovery From Schizophrenia: Psychiatry And Political Economy

NotesINTRODUCTION1 Harris, M., Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture, New York:Random House, 1979. See also the preface to Marx, K., A Contribution to theCritique of Political Economy, New York: International Publishers, 1970; firstpublished 1859.IWHAT IS SCHIZOPHRENIA?1 Lee, R.B., “!Kung bushman subsistence: An input-output analysis,” in A.P.Vayda(ed.), Environment and Cultural Behavior: Ecological Studies in Cultural Anthropology,Garden City, New York: Natural History Press, 1969, pp. 47–9.2 This is a broad definition of political economy as is commonly used in anthropology.It is drawn from Harris, M., Culture, Man, and Nature, New York: Thomas Y.Crowell, 1971, p. 145. Similarly broad definitions may be found in Lange, O.,Political Economy, vol. 1, New York: Macmillan, 1959 (“Political economy isconcerned with the social laws of production and distribution”); and in Marshall,A., Principles of Economics, 8th edn. London: Macmillan, 1920, p. l (“Economics is astudy of mankind in the ordinary business of life: it examines that part of individualand social action which is most closely connected with the attainment and with theuse of material requisites of wellbeing”).3 Szasz, T.S., The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct,revised edn, New York: Harper & Row, 1974.4 American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,4th edn (DSM-IV), Washington, DC, 1994.5 Kraepelin, E., Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia, Edinburgh: Livingstone, 1919, pp.38–43.6 Leff, J., Psychiatry Around the Globe: A Transcultural View, New York: MarcelDekker, 1981, ch. 5.7 Bleuler, E., Dementia Praecox, or the Group of Schizophrenias, translated by J.Zinkin,New York: International Universities Press, 1950. The German language editionfirst appeared in 1911.8 Ibid., pp. 246–7.