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SUMMARY:What anthropology can teach psychiatry about psychosis – the pro
 blem of hallucinations - Professor Tanya Luhrmann\, Stanford University\, 
 Department of Social Anthropology
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CONTACT:Jan- Jonathan Bock
DESCRIPTION:Professor Tanya Luhrmann of the Department of Social Anthropol
 ogy at Stanford University. \n\nHer interests include the social construct
 ion of psychological experience\, and the way that social practice may aff
 ect even the most concrete ways in which people experience their world\, p
 articularly in the domain of what some would call the "irrational". \n\nHe
 r current work looks at the way American evangelicals learn to experience 
 God and at psychosis in psychiatric clients. These are very different proj
 ects\, but they share an interest in the way subjective experience is inte
 rpreted and the way that socio-cultural expectations can override ordinary
  sensory processing and produce what an observer might call "hallucination
 s".\n\nTanya received her PhD here at Cambridge in 1986\, and taught for m
 any years at the University of California San Diego. Prior to coming to St
 anford she was Max Palevsky Professor and a director of the Clinical Ethno
 graphy project in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the U
 niversity of Chicago. \n\nHer projects have included work on: 1. The way r
 easonable people come to believe apparently unreasonable beliefs (“Persu
 asions of the Witch’s Craft”\, Harvard\, 1989). 2. The apparently irra
 tional self-criticism of a postcolonial India elite\, the result of coloni
 al identification with the colonizers (“The Good Parsi”\, Harvard 1996
 ). and 3. Two cultures with the American profession of psychiatry and exam
 ined the way these different cultures encouraged two different forms of em
 pathy and two different understandings of mental illness (“Of Two Minds
 ”\, Knopf\, 2000).\n\nShe was elected a fellow of the American Academy o
 f Arts and Sciences in 2003\, president of the Society for Psychological A
 nthropology for 2008. She has received numerous awards for scholarship\, i
 ncluding the AAA President's award for 2004 and a recent Guggenheim award 
 in 2007.\n\nThis talk is free and open to everyone.
LOCATION:Department of Social Anthropology\, Seminar Room
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