Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be SolvedFrench historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the conflict between the ideals of individualism and community defines American culture. In this groundbreaking new work, anthropologist Charles Nuckolls discovers that every culture consists of such paradoxes, thus making culture a problem that cannot be solved. He does, however, find much creative tension in these unresolvable opposites. |
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... disorders of independence , such as narcissistic or antisocial personality disorder . Similarly , the value of dependence is allocated to women , and the women who represent this value become diagnosable with one of the disorders of ...
... personality disorders of independence ( e.g. , paranoid and antisocial ) , whereas women are diagnosed much more often with disorders of dependence ( histrionic and borderline ) . There is no obvious reason that there should be a ...
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Contents
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Value Dialectics and the Construction of a Regional Identity Max Weber in Oklahoma | 74 |
The Allocation of Value to Gender and the Cultural History of Psychiatric Diagnosis | 108 |
Cultural Ambivalence and the Knowledge Structures of Modern American Psychiatry | 161 |
The Narrative Reproduction of Values in Psychiatric Training and Practice | 202 |
Dialectical Values and Cultural Paradox | 270 |
Bibliography | 279 |
Index | 293 |