Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/04/Ethan_Watters_The_Globalization_of_the_American_Psyche Ethan Watters, author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, describes the relationship between psychological healing and a culture’s sense of the self. “These ideas of the mind are predictive,” he says, “and they are all also tied to culturally specific ways of healing.” —– American culture is homogenizing the way the world goes mad. Our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But neither our golden arches nor our bomb craters represent our most troubling impact on the world: the bulldozing of the human mind itself. In Crazy Like Us, leading trend-spotter and science writer Ethan Watters shows that we are not only changing the way the world treats and understands mental illness, we are actually changing the symptoms and prevalence of the diseases themselves. – Hillside Club Ethan Watters is the author of Urban Tribes, an examination of the mores of affluent “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, Details, Wired, and NPR, he has appeared on such national media as “Good Morning America,” “Talk of the Nation,” and CNN. His latest book is Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche.