Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam

It came just in time for class and looks amazing.

This is an exceptional ethnography of madness, which listens closely to interlocutors and their intellectual as well as socio-political and economic contexts in contemporary Morocco. Pandolfo's grasp of psychoanalysis provides compelling analytical frameworks, yet these same frameworks do not "choke" her interlocutors' accounts.

I found this book to be unrealistic and presumptuous. Although the author clearly understands the field, I believe this type of analysis to be far reaching and founded in flawed logic.