The movement for global mental health : critical views from South and Southeast Asia /

In this volume, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH), which seeks to export psychiatry throughout the world. They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that "...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sax, William Sturman, 1957- (Editor), Lang, Claudia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Series:Social studies in Asian medicine.
Subjects:
Mental health > Cross-cultural studies.
Mental illness > Cross-cultural studies.
Mental health > South Asia.
Mental health > Southeast Asia.
Mental illness > South Asia.
Mental illness > Southeast Asia.
Psychiatry.
Cultural pluralism.
Cultural Diversity
Santé mentale > Études transculturelles.
Maladies mentales > Études transculturelles.
Santé mentale > Asie méridionale.
Santé mentale > Asie du Sud-Est.
Maladies mentales > Asie méridionale.
Maladies mentales > Asie du Sud-Est.
Diversité culturelle.
Public health and preventive medicine.
Mental health services.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
Zuidoost-Azië.
geestelijke gezondheidszorg.
Cultural pluralism
Mental health
Mental illness
Psychiatry
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Cross-cultural studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables
  • 1 Global Mental Health
  • Critical Histories
  • 2 Mental Ills for All
  • 3 Schizoid Balinese?
  • 4 Misdiagnosis
  • The Limits of Global Mental Health
  • 5 Jinns and the Proletarian Mumin Subject
  • 6 Psychedelic Therapy
  • Alternatives
  • 7 The House of Love and the Mental Hospital
  • 8 Ayurvedic Psychiatry and the Moral Physiology of Depression in Kerala
  • 9 Global Mental Therapy
  • Afterwords
  • 10 Global Mental Health
  • 11 "Treatment" and Why We Need Alternatives
  • Index

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