Christopher Dole on psychiatry and disaster in Turkey

August 5, 2025

Turkey Book Talk #250 – Christopher Dole, professor of anthropology at Amherst College, on “Living On: Psychiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey” (Stanford University Press).

The book is an account of the psychiatric response to the August 1999 Marmara Earthquake, which killed over 20,000 people and left hundreds of thousands injured or displaced. It also examines the legacy of the earthquake in the communities and lives of its survivors and among the Turkish mental health professionals who responded to it.

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One Response to “Christopher Dole on psychiatry and disaster in Turkey”

Monica Ringer Says:

August 26, 2025 at 11:16 am
Hi Chris, I just listened to this interview – the book sounds fantastic and I learned a lot from it- no surprise there! I hope you had a good summer. Good luck with fall classes, AAUP, etc. keep me posted! warm regards, Monica

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