Exporting Mental Disorders: Ethan Watters - a podcast by Will Hall, Madness Radio

How did pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Smith Kline create"depression"in Japan -- and a billion dollar market for its anti-depressant drug Paxil? Why do people diagnosed with schizophrenia recover more in Tanzania than they do in the US? Can western-style psychotherapy help tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka?

Ethan Watters, author ofCrazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, discusses how mental disorders are cultural products, defined in the US and then exported around the world.  [Read more...]

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