Neely Anne Laurenzo Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 96763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neely Anne Laurenzo Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neely Anne Laurenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS N A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University Department of Anthropology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Recovery stories
Moral agency has been loosely defined as the freedom to aspire to a “good life” that makes possible intimate relationships with others. This article uses ethnographic research to further the discussion of the role of moral agency in mental health recovery. This article attends to the ebb and flow of moral agency in the life stories of three people diagnosed with a serious psychiatric disability at different stages in their individual recoveries t…
No One Ever Even Asked Me that Before
Our article draws on ethnographic research with African American males diagnosed with a psychotic disorder in a high‐poverty urban area of the northeastern United States. Our participants frequently described the ways public mental health services led them to experience a paralyzing erosion of autobiographical power, which we define as the ability to tell one's own story and be the editor of one's own life. We identified three important points wh…
Toward an Applied Neuroanthropology of Psychosis
Psychotic disorders emerge from the interplay between culture, brains, and experience. Understanding psychotic disorders and intervening effectively to prevent them or alleviate their effects requires a rich understanding of all three, which may best be captured by the transdisciplinary methods and theory of an applied neuroanthropology. Neuroanthropology investigates the ways that cultural context interacts with vulnerable people's brains to bot…
No One Ever Even Asked Me that Before
Our article draws on ethnographic research with African American males diagnosed with a psychotic disorder in a high‐poverty urban area of the northeastern United States. Our participants frequently described the ways public mental health services led them to experience a paralyzing erosion of autobiographical power, which we define as the ability to tell one's own story and be the editor of one's own life. We identified three important points wh…
Toward an Applied Neuroanthropology of Psychosis
Psychotic disorders emerge from the interplay between culture, brains, and experience. Understanding psychotic disorders and intervening effectively to prevent them or alleviate their effects requires a rich understanding of all three, which may best be captured by the transdisciplinary methods and theory of an applied neuroanthropology. Neuroanthropology investigates the ways that cultural context interacts with vulnerable people's brains to bot…
Toward an Applied Neuroanthropology of Psychosis
Psychotic disorders emerge from the interplay between culture, brains, and experience. Understanding psychotic disorders and intervening effectively to prevent them or alleviate their effects requires a rich understanding of all three, which may best be captured by the transdisciplinary methods and theory of an applied neuroanthropology. Neuroanthropology investigates the ways that cultural context interacts with vulnerable people's brains to bot…
Recovery stories
Moral agency has been loosely defined as the freedom to aspire to a “good life” that makes possible intimate relationships with others. This article uses ethnographic research to further the discussion of the role of moral agency in mental health recovery. This article attends to the ebb and flow of moral agency in the life stories of three people diagnosed with a serious psychiatric disability at different stages in their individual recoveries t…
No One Ever Even Asked Me that Before
Our article draws on ethnographic research with African American males diagnosed with a psychotic disorder in a high‐poverty urban area of the northeastern United States. Our participants frequently described the ways public mental health services led them to experience a paralyzing erosion of autobiographical power, which we define as the ability to tell one's own story and be the editor of one's own life. We identified three important points wh…
Anthropology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Mental health (2 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Psychotherapist (2 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (2 works)