Introduction
Empathy and healing : aspects of spiritualist ritual
Bodily madness and the spread of the blush
The symbolic significance of menstruation and the menopause
Women and affliction in Maharstra : a hydraulic model of health and illness
Anthropology and psychiatry : the uneasy alliance
Remembering and forgetting : anthropology and psychiatry : the changing relationship
A historical disorder : neurasthenia and the testimony of lives in Latvia
Narratives of the body and history : illness in judgement on the Soviet past
From damaged nerves to masked depression : inevitability and hope in Latvian psychiatric narratives
Looking for a subject : Latvian memory and narrative
The expropriated harvest : narratives of deportation and collectivization in north-east Latvia
Narratives of landscape in Latvian history and memory
Arguing with the KGB archives : archival and narrative memory in post-Soviet Latvia
Varieties of deception and distrust : moral dilemmas in the ethnography of psychiatry.