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Ethan Watters

Ethan Watters
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Ethan Watters

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.

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Crazy Like Us will be released on March 22, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Mar 22, 2011
Crazy Like Us is now available in Trade Paperback
Mar 22, 2011
Excerpt:
Introduction from Crazy Like Us
Apr 15, 2010
Crazy Like Us will be released on January 12, 2010 in eBook
Jan 12, 2010
Crazy Like Us is now available in eBook
Jan 12, 2010
Excerpt:
Introduction from Crazy Like Us
Dec 09, 2009

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New Yorker, March 31, 2013
...One of the most mind-bending articles I read this week was Ethan Watters?s piece ?We Aren?t the World,? from the Pacific Standard. Watters writes about a team of researchers whose work indicates that cultural difference is not just a matter of varied...
NBCNews.com, January 28, 2013
...than you might think; they actually are becoming more important sociologically. In his 2004 book Urban Tribes, journalist Ethan Watters posed the question: “Are friends the new family?” Watters entertainingly depicted city-dwelling buddies who relied...
Wired News, January 15, 2013
...taken. The idea that culture shapes the experience and expression of anomalous mental states is also explored in Ethan Watters’ , and with particular directness in the blogosphere lately by N, a blogger who at  the fascinating Ruminations on...
Huffington Post, December 11, 2012
...particular culture. A Snapshot of Sri Lanka Cultures vary in how they address post-traumatic stress disorder. For example, Ethan Watters in his book Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psych, paints an amusing portrait of good-intentioned...
Sligo Champion, November 29, 2012
...Donnell, Niall Murphy, Sean Whitehead, Jack Flatley, Aaron Perry, Sean Kerrigan, Brian Byrne, Nayil Donegan GRANGE: Oisin Sheridan, Ethan Watters, Michael Kerins, Joe Spelman, Colm McBrien, Noel Bourke, Shane Towey, Michael Gilmartin, Adam Burke, Seamas...
GoArticles, October 8, 2012
...water's inundation and its trail of destruction. Over US$10b was raised and, in what is described by Ethan Watters in his book Crazy Like Us as 'possibly the largest international psychological intervention of all time', countless well-meaning trauma...
LankaWeb, September 3, 2012
...� applied to � non-Western � cultures. � � � � The Americanization of Mental Illness The author Ethan Watters examined trauma and cultural factors in depth. He expresses that the Western conception of mental health and illness might be...
LankaWeb, June 18, 2012
...sometimes play as � are � trauma buffers to come to terms with psychological trauma.� The author Ethan Watters examined trauma and cultural factors in depth. He expresses that the Western conception of mental health and illness might be shaping the...
ABC Online, June 11, 2012
...//www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/conversationspodcast.xml into your podcasting application or visit our podcasting page. Visit the Conversations archive. Ethan Watters ( Ethan Watters...