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Anthropolgy of Madness
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:30:07
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | HZK_023 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Philosophy | Target Audience: | Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Vents Sīlis | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 3 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 6 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 10 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 3 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 6 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 10 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Ability to read and understand text in English. Prior knowledge of medical sociology is preferred. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Provide knowledge of factors that determine the changing public attitude towards normality and mental illness. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction. Culture, madness, psychiatry: an anthropological perspective | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Psychotherapy and the cultural concept | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Defining normality and abnormality across cultures | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Cultural models and somatic syndromes | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Rise of an anti-psychiatry | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Culture-bound syndromes | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Mental illness and silenced groups | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Institution defining madness I | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Politics, economics and pharmaceuticals of mental illness | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Institution defining madness II | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Mental illness, global health and social movements | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Living with illness. Narratives of mentally ill. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 13 | The illness as a communicaton | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 14 | Pharmaceuticals, narrative and selfhood | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 15 | Identity, community and mental health | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 16 | Current research in transcultural psychiatry | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students read the assigned articles before each seminar and/or examine the case studies and prepare to analyze them. Students prepare to pass the test at the end of the course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | (1) Active participation in seminars: demonstrating ability to actively reproduce the read material by displaying substantive arguments on the topic. (2) Final test at the end of the course. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Student will be able to explain how different factors (culture, social environment, religion, political regime, the media, medicine, etc.) determine normality and madness. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Student will be able to analyze with mental illness related issues in the society and health and social care: well-being and quality of life in nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals, stigma and discrimination, integration in society, rights of mentally ill people etc. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Ability to assess the impact a variety of factors (cultural specifics, social background, religion, political regime, medical, etc.) on the definition of normality and madness and evaluate the impact of these factors in the treatment of mental disorders. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Fuko, M. (2001). Uzraudzīt un sodīt: cietuma rašanās. Rīga: Omnia mea. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | Lūse, A. (2009). Zināšanas un vara: psiholoģisku problēmu diskursa formas. Kentaurs XXI, Nr. 48. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 3 | Lūse, A. (2007). „Patības balss un cēloņsakarību atbalss stāstos par krīzes pieredzi'. M. Zirnīte (red.), Dzīvesstāsti: vēsture, kultūra, sabiedrība, 269-83. Rīga: "Dzīvesstāsts" & LU Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 4 | Skultāne, V. (2002). „Naratīvs un slimība”. Cilvēks, dzīve, stāstījums: rakstu krājums. Rīga: Latvijas antropologu biedrība; Latvijas Universitātes Literatūras folkloras un mākslas institūts. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 5 | Rozier, E. (2011). „Institution defining Madness: A Place for the Individual”. Grāmatā Probing Madness. Red. K.Szmigiero. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 6 | Ārvalstu studentiem/For International students: | ||||||||
| 7 | Rozier, E. (2011). „Institution defining Madness: A Place for the Individual”. Grāmatā Probing Madness. Red. K.Szmigiero. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Eglītis, I. (1989). Psihiatrija: rokasgrāmata. Rīga: Zvaigzne. | ||||||||
| 2 | Foucault, M. (2001). Madness and civilization. A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 3 | Foucault, M. (2006). History of Madness. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 4 | Foucault, M. (2003). The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 5 | Ārvalstu studentiem/For International students: | ||||||||
| 6 | Foucault, M. (2001). Madness and civilization. A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 7 | Foucault, M. (2006). History of Madness. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 8 | Foucault, M. (2003). The birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Lībeka, M. Traks uz mūžu – nieks vien. LA, 23.10.2012. (pieejams http://www.la.lv/traks-uz-muzu-nieks-vien-2/ ) | ||||||||
| 2 | Lībeka, M. Traks pēc nāves. LA, 28.01.2013. (pieejams http://www.la.lv/traks-pec-naves%E2%80%A9-2/) | ||||||||
| 3 | Nav viegli būt citādam, dokumentāla īsfilma, 2012. (pieejams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4fM9IrkQ1c) | ||||||||
| 4 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, mākslas filma/art movie, 1975. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/?ref_=nv_sr_1) | ||||||||
| 5 | Temple Grandin, mākslas filma/art movie, 2010. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/?ref_=nv_sr_1) | ||||||||
| 6 | Ārvalstu studentiem/For International students: | ||||||||
| 7 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, mākslas filma/art movie, 1975. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/?ref_=nv_sr_1) | ||||||||
| 8 | Temple Grandin, mākslas filma/art movie, 2010. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278469/?ref_=nv_sr_1) | ||||||||
