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It is popular that American culture is a dominating make at home and in foreign countries; our exportation of from movies to processed foods is a well-documented occurrence. But is it possible that America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for? In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters unveils that the most damaging effect of the get spread around of American culture is not our fantastic arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself: We have been along the way of homogenizing what sort of world will go mad. America has been the world innovator in creating new mental health treatments and modern ideas of the human psyche. We export our psychopharmaceuticals packaged with the certainty that our biomedical knowledge will alleviate the fighting and stigma of mental condition. We categorize disorders, in that way defining mental condition and health, and then parade these seemingly scientific certainties before the entire world. The blowback from these initiatives is merely now arriving to light: As it happens that we never have only been changing what sort of world discusses and treats mental condition - we have been changing the mental diseases themselves.
