Extraordinary Care for Extraordinary Conditions: Constructing Parental Care for Serious Mental Illness in Japan.

This article presents an account of how Japanese parents in a family support group for mental illness constructed understandings of care for adult children with serious mental illness, primarily schizophrenia. I build from Janis H. Jenkins's research on the "extraordinary condition" of schizophrenia...

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Published in:Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 755 - 778
Main Author: Rubinstein, Ellen B.
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2018
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