The Butterfly And The Serpent

In the last twenty years cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology have become firmly established as academic and clinical disciplines in the United Kingdom and North America. Through his research and his writings, Roland Littlewood has emerged as one of the leading and most distinguished contributors to the field of cultural psychiatry. Here he presents a collection of his papers which have achieved great influence and which deal with the essential issues in this area. They range across culture, history, language, religion, and gender and present material from several continents. All of them provideclear theoretical positions through accessible narrative accounts.For students, teachers and researchers in psychiatry, medicine, social anthropology, ethnic and racial studies, and medical sociology, this provides an outstanding and original overview of this fascinating and rapidly developing area.