Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness
Janis H. Jenkins
University of California Press, 2015
Reviewed by Katie Barron for Somatosphere
It has been a privilege, through reading Extraordinary Conditions, to come into contact with a writer and practitioner of extraordinary compassion. The book bears witness to a process of open-ended interviewing that contributed to presenting the lives and experiences of Jenkins’ interlocutors with a deep concern for their dignity and self-esteem……