Research Catalog

Title

Mental health, race and culture / Suman Fernando.

Author

Fernando, Suman

Publication

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Description

xi, 232 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This is the third, significantly expanded and revised, edition of this seminal text. Incorporating additional contemporary topics, including mental health of refugees, trauma and psychosocial approaches, this text offers an illuminating account of mental health and mental disorder seen cross-culturally and internationally"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Psychiatry, Transcultural
• Psychiatry
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Mental Disorders > ethnology
• Prejudice
• Race Relations > psychology
• Socioeconomic Factors
• Ethnopsychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Part I : Theory and tradition -- Race and culture ; ethnicity and identity -- Traditional western approaches to mental health -- Background and culture of psychiatry -- Racism in psychiatry -- Changing discourse in mental health -- Trauma and post-traumatic stress ; suffering and violence -- Part II: Practice and innovation -- Application of psychiatry : bias and imperialism -- Asian and African 'therapy' for mental health -- Mental health in low- and middle income countries -- Mental health of refugees in high-income countries -- Prospects for plurality in therapies for mental health -- Mental health for all.

ISBN

• 9780230212718 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0230212719 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009047552

OCLC

455800587

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library