A seering critique of how the US is exporting its mental illnesses.
Ethan Watters is the author of Urban Tribes, an examination of the mores of the "never-marrieds," and the coauthor of Making Monsters, a groundbreaking indictment of the recovered memory movement. A frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Discover, Men's Journal, Wired, and This American Life, he lives in San Francisco with his wife and children.
Ethan Watters has traveled the world to look at how globalization
reaches far beyond economics and into people's very conceptions of
what constitutes health and sanity. I find his book provocative,
original, and convincing. -- Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the
Chains and King Leopold's Ghost
...in addition to the cultural flotsam that drives the rest
of the world crazy, America is literally exporting its mental
illnesses...[Watters] is on to something worth pondering. * Time
magazine *
Crazy Like Us is both groundbreaking and shocking... * The
Boston Globe *
Crazy Like Us is a blistering and truly original work of
reporting and analysis, uncovering America's role in homogenizing
how the world defines wellness and healing. -- Po Bronson, author
of NurtureShock
"Searing, startling, and utterly unforgettable. Ethan Watters
brilliantly surveys the stark interior cost of globalization, from
our export of stress disorders to Sri Lanka to our marketing of
depression in Japan as 'a cold of the soul.' Crazy Like Us
is a grand tour of the new global psyche, distorted and darkened by
the export of the American dream." -- Jason Roberts, National Book
Critics Circle finalist for A Sense of the World
I couldn't put it down. Crazy Like Us is a fascinating and
provocative intellectual travelogue, and Watters is a fearless
guide. * Alan Burdick, author of Out of Eden *
Compelling. * OneinFour *
A chilling, cautionary tale. * Time Out *
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