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Maladies mentales --- Psychiatrie --- Psychiatry --- Guides pratiques. --- guides pratiques. --- Psychiatrists --- Psychiatrist

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"Caracas 2010. La crisis energética es aprovechada por el gobierno revolucionario para decretar cortes eléctricos que, durante horas, funden a negro todo el país. En esos lapsos de tiempo, Venezuela parece retroceder en la historia hacia una nueva Edad de Piedra que se filtra por todas las rendijas. En medio de esta atmósfera, dos amigos, un escritor frustrado y un psiquiatra acostumbrado a involucrarse en la vida de sus pacientes, conversan sobre una serie de crímenes ocurridos en el último año. No hay tregua para el horror. El mal va tintando de oscuro todo lo cotidiano"--Page 4 of cover. Awarded the French literary prize "Rive Gauche", this novel of today's Venezuela deals with the energy crisis in 2010 brought on by the revolutionary government and takes place in its capital, Caracas. The story's two protagonists, one a frustrated writer and the other a psychiatrist accustomed to getting involved in the lives of his patients, converse about a series of crimes that have ocurred within the last year. There is seemingly no escape from the horror of everyday life so common now in their country.

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Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which patients rarely left. She shows instead a society in which Vietnamese communities and families actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that strengthened the power of the colonial state, even as they also forced French experts to engage with local understandings of, and practices around, insanity. Beyond the Asylum reveals how psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the Vietnamese public debated both what it meant to be abnormal, as well as normal enough to return to social life, throughout the early twentieth century. Straddling the fields of colonial history, Southeast Asian studies and the history of medicine, Beyond the Asylum shifts our perspective from the institution itself to its relationship with the world beyond its walls. This world included not only psychiatrists and their patients, but also prosecutors and parents, neighbors and spirit mediums, as well as the police and local press. How each group interacted with the mentally ill, with each other, and sometimes in opposition to each other, helped decide the fate of those both in and outside the colonial asylum.

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