The most devastating consequence of the spread of american culture across the globe has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters, but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself. Author ethan watters thinks that america is homogenizing the way the world goes mad. Crazy like us is a truly enlightening and profound book about how western biomedical concepts of mental illness are gaining ground in various parts of the world in an unquestioning manner that is not. Matthew rubery, the untold history of the talking book.
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