| ID | 184794 |
| Title Proper | Do You Hear Voices, or Do You Think You Hear Voices? |
| Other Title Information | Malevolence and Modernity in the Psychiatric Clinic |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Willford, Andrew |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Based upon fieldwork at India’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), I trace the contours of hysteria as an enduring, albeit informal, analytic that continues to disturb neuropsychiatric reductionism within psychiatry. I argue that at this historical moment, the political and economic demand for singular identities out of more porous cultural life-worlds (e.g. ethnic, religious, linguistic, occupational) produces clinical subjects incapable of nuance and flexibility, hastening a host of possessive, literalist, legalist and ‘hysteric’ symptoms that overtake India’s most vulnerable modern subjects, fuelling the sense of a crisis in search of a pharmaceutical solution to a psychopathological diagnosis. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 45, No.1; Feb 2022: p.164-182 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol: 45 No 1 |
| Key Words | Modernity ; India ; Identity ; Psychiatry ; Malevolence ; Hysteria |