像我们一样疯狂
Crazy like us
Ethan Watters · 初版 2010 年
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为什么值得读
- 包含世界各地社会经历与应对精神疾病的案例
- 探讨文化背景如何深刻影响并阻碍纯心理学认知
- 对PTSD等疾病的历史演变描写生动深刻
美国文化席卷全球所带来的最具破坏性的后果，不是我们的金色拱门，也不是我们的炸弹弹坑，而是对人类精神世界本身的践踏破坏。美式抑郁症、创伤后应激障碍与神经性厌食症已如传染病般在全球蔓延，而病毒正是我们自己。备受赞誉的记者Ethan Watters走访香港、斯里兰卡、桑给巴尔到日本，亲眼见证了西方疗愈者如何常常粗暴碾碎本土对心理健康与疯狂的表达，并代之以我们自己的一套标准。在向世界其他地方传授
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……在出版前关于该障碍背后的理论。这里有一份摘要：http://www.vva.org/archive/TheVeteran/2005_03/feature_Histor... 不过 Ethan Watters 的书《Crazy Like Us》（疯常如此）里关于 PTSD 历史的部分写得更好。
…the theory behind the disorder before publication. There is a summary of this here: http://www.vva.org/archive/TheVeteran/2005_03/feature_Histor... Although the history of PTSD in Ethan Watters book Crazy Like Us is better written.
太感谢你发这个了。这类信息有什么好的来源推荐吗？我特别对文化之间的心理学/神经学差异感兴趣。《Crazy Like Us》[1] 就是一个类似的例子。文化居然能阻碍对心理学的充分理解，这真是太令人着迷了。1: http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Like-Us-Globalization-American/d...
Thank you so much for posting this. Are there any good sources for this type of information? I'm specifically interested in psychological/neurological differences between cultures. A similar example is Crazy Like Us [1]. It's fascinating how culture seems to thwart a full comprehension of psychology. 1: http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Like-Us-Globalization-American/d...
Ethan Watters 写的《Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche》。我从 6 岁起就患有慢性抑郁症。从我有自我意识开始，我就一直有自杀倾向。我曾……
“Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche” by Ethan Watters. I have been chronically depressed since I was 6 years old. I have had suicidal tendencies as long as I can recall being sentient. I would…
如果有人想了解更多为什么 DSM 的主观性会带来问题，去看看 Ethan Watters 写的《Crazy Like Us》，然后再看看 Wired 的这篇报道：http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_dsmv/ 我知道这只是一篇书评，并没有试图把所有问题都讲透，但即便如此……
If anyone wants to know more about why the subjectiveness of the DSM is problematic, check out Crazy Like Us by Ethan Watters, and then also this Wired article: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_dsmv/ I realize this is only a book review and not an attempt to fully explain the issues, but even still…
……对于抑郁症的感受，我不觉得它仅仅是悲伤，我对患有抑郁症的人绝对抱有同情。但是……读了一本叫《Crazy Like Us》[1] 的书之后，我对精神疾病的看法改变了很大。它并不单单针对抑郁症——而是一系列案例研究，探讨了全球不同社会如何经历/应对/治疗各种精神疾病，……
…experience of depression, I don't think it's just sadness and I'm absolutely sympathetic toward those who with depression. But... My thinking about mental illness changed a lot after reading a book called Crazy Like Us [1]. It doesn't talk about depression specifically - it's a collection of case studies on how different mental illnesses have been experienced/handled/treated by different societies around the world,…
推荐阅读：Ethan Watters 写的《Crazy Like Us》。我不敢确定这篇文章的真实度，但 Watters 那本书给出了相当多的证据，证明精神障碍在很大程度上是由各自文化在社会层面构建出来的。……
Recommended reading: "Crazy Like Us" by Ethan Watters. I'm not sure about the validity of this article, but the Watters book presents a fair amount of evidence that mental disorders are in many ways socially constructed by individual cultures.…