Maithil Women's Tales Jimmy Choi Ackerknecht's former student and a

Ackerknecht's former student and a distinguished historian of medicine

expertly organized volume

cover American history from colonial times to the present

All human psychopathology is an expression of a dysfunctional personality system broadly conceived

Maithil Women's Tales Jimmy Choi Ackerknecht's former student and aConstrained by traditions restricting their movements and speech, the Maithil women of Nepal and India have long explored individual and collective life experiences by sharing stories with one another. Sometimes fantastical, sometimes including a kind of magical realism, these tales allow women to build community through a deeply personal and always evolving storytelling form. In Maithil Women's Tales, Coralynn V. Davis examines how these storytellers