This crucial new work draws on empirical findings from rural North India in relation to Madness and subjectivity, revealing the different structures of subjectivity underlying the narratives of schizophrenia, spirits, ghosts, and deities.
Unravelling the loose ends of madness, the author explores the cultural differences in understanding and experiencing Madness to examine how modern insanity is treated as a clinical disorder, but historically it represents how we form knowledge and.
This crucial new work draws on empirical findings from rural North India in relation to Madness and subjectivity, revealing the different structures of subjectivity underlying the narratives of schizophrenia, spirits, ghosts, and deities