This book is one of the first to integrate psychological and medical anthropology with the methodologies of visual anthropology, specifically ethnographic film. It discusses and complements the work presented in Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia, the first film series on psychiatric disorders in the developing world, in order to explore pertinent issues in the cross-cultural study of mental illness and advocate for the unique role film can play both in the discipline and in participants¿ lives. Through ethnographically rich and self-reflexive discussions of the films, their production, and their impact, the book at once provides theoretical and practical guidance, encouragement, and caveats for students and others who may want to make such films.

1. Introduction2. Precedents and Possibilities: Towards an Integration of Visual and Psychological Anthropology3. Culture, Mental Illness, and Outcome in Java and Bali4. The Bird Dancer: Social Suffering and the Question of Therapeutic Visual Ethnography5. Shadows and Illuminations: The Complexities of Interpreting and Framing Extraordinary Experience6. Family Victim: Encountering Deviance and Representing Intersubjectivity7. Memory of My Face: Globalization, Madness, and Identity Onscreen8. Ritual Burdens: Culturally Defined Stressors and Developmental Progressions9. Kites and Monsters: Continuity in Cultural Practices and Visual Representation10. Basic Concepts in Filming for Visual Psychological Anthropology11. Visual Person-Centered Ethnography: Adapting Core Methodologies and Articulating Principles for Visual Psychological Anthropology

Robert Lemelson is Associate Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Founder and Director at Elemental Productions, and Founder and President of The Foundation for Psychocultural Research.

Annie Tucker is Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and Senior Researcher at Elemental Productions.