Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Tables viii
5. Note on Site of Original Publication ix
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. 2. Empathy and Healing: Aspects of Spiritualist Ritual 16
8. 3. Bodily Madness and the Spread of the Blush 30
9. 4. The Symbolic Significance of Menstruation and the Menopause 43
10. 5. Women and Affliction in Maharstra: A Hydraulic Model of Health and Illness 58
11. 6. Anthropology and Psychiatry: The Uneasy Alliance 96
12. 7. Remembering and Forgetting: Anthropology and Psychiatry – The Changing Relationship 112
13. 8. A Historical Disorder: Neurasthenia and the Testimony of Lives in Latvia 122
14. 9. Narratives of the Body and History: Illness in Judgement on the Soviet Past 139
15. 10. From Damaged Nerves to Masked Depression: Inevitability and Hope in Latvian Psychiatric Narratives 156
16. 11. Looking for a Subject: Latvian Memory and Narrative 175
17. 12. The Expropriated Harvest: Narratives of Deportation and Collectivization in North-East Latvia 190
18. 13. Narratives of Landscape in Latvian History and Memory 205
19. 14. Arguing with the KGB Archives: Archival and Narrative Memory in Post-Soviet Latvia 224
20. 15. Varieties of Deception and Distrust: Moral Dilemmas in the Ethnography of Psychiatry 244
21. Bibliography 264
22. Index 279