“Behind the promotion of Western ideas of mental health and healing lies a variety of cultural assumptions about human nature itself. Westerners share, for instance, beliefs about what type of life event is likely to make one psychologically traumatized, and… — Ethan Watters Copy Share Image
“Shorter believes that psychosomatic illnesses (such as leg paralysis at the turn of the twentieth century or multiple personality disorder at the turn of the twenty-first) are examples of the unconscious mind attempting to speak in a language of emotional distress that will be understood in its time. People at a given moment in history in need of expressing their… — Ethan Watters Copy Share
“Looking at ourselves through the eyes of those living in places where human tragedy is still embedded in complex religious and cultural narratives, we… — Ethan Watters Copy Share Image
“Behind the promotion of Western ideas of mental health and healing lies a variety of cultural assumptions about human nature itself. Westerners share, for… — Ethan Watters Copy Share Image
“Because our culture so highly values an illusion of self-control and control of circumstance, we become abject when contemplating mentation that seems more changeable,… — Ethan Watters Copy Share Image
“Because we cannot see the roads we have not taken, we become, by defaults, advocates for the path our life is on.” — Ethan Watters Copy Share Image
“In the cosmology of Western Christians, life’s challenges provide opportunities to become stronger and to have a closer relationship with God. The burdens God… — Ethan Watters Copy Share Image
