A Mind Dismembered Summary

A Mind Dismembered The article made me think if it was even possible for someone to lose possession of their penis. The way it started was absurd because I have never heard or seen of a place where a man could lose what they find so important to them. The way the writer seeks for the truth when he travels to Africa to describe the horrific stories got me thinking if it's true. The places that it occurred at were many which made it seem believable because it's happening in more than one certain area. The physical disappearance of you sex organ came to fool me in the beginning based on the places the author said it was occurring at. In the beginning it seemed like a joke, but as it is explained in a serious matter it seemed like it is possible
As he describes that first-generation immigrants are better off with their mental health than their second-generation kids that come out with mental health issues. This helps support the fact that the disorders that happen could be more culture influenced based. The fact supports it because it shows that after people have been in a culture for a long period of time and have given in the culture to be part of them is it than that the cultures influence affects people with disorders that happen in the culture. If noticed those who come from a different culture such as immigrants coming to the American culture wouldn't be affected by the mental disorders that occur in the American culture because they are not part or given into the culture, which is why they wouldn't be affected. This is what the author comes to show in the passage in which I agree on. The thing that confuses me that has me thinking is that if most mental disorders are all mostly culture based than how many of those disorders here in the U.S. are culture based and which are actual mental disorders. As well if people with mental disorders that are culture based could be cured by putting them in a different environment in which the culture is totally the opposite of what their old