Research Catalog

Title

Mental health in Africa / edited by Olayiwola A. Erinosho and Norman W. Bell.

Publication

[Ibadan] : Ibadan University Press ; Montreal, Quebec, Canada : Research Committee on the Sociology of Mental Health, 1982.

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Additional Authors

• Erinosho, Olayiwola A.
• Bell, Norman W.
• International Sociological Association. Research Committee on the Sociology of Mental Health.

Description

xv, 266 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

This is the first book which deals with a wide range of topics based on research by scholars in many parts of the Continent. The majority of the papers in this volume were read at the first international regional conference of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Mental Health, of the International Sociological Association. The papers focus on the widely shared concept of mental illness in a number of sub-groups in Africa, psychiatric epidemiology, the development of mental health serices, as well as on the attitudes of a variety of sub-groups to psychiatric disorder.

Series Statement

Ibadan University Press tropical medicine series ; 3

Uniform Title

Ibadan tropical medicine series ; 3.

Subject

• Mental health > Africa > Congresses
• Mental health services > Africa > Congresses
• Mental health
• Mental health services
• Psychische Gesundheit
• Africa
• Afrika

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 248-262.

Contents

• The challenge of planning mental health services / Norman W Bell (7 p.). -- Social and clinical features of patients at a state psychiatric hospital in Nigeria / W.P.J.C Onyeama (8 p.). -- Alcoholism : a missed diagnosis? / Omotayo I Ifabumuyi (7 p.). -- Comments on research into intellectual development of the Yoruba : performance of underlying ability? / Brenda R Meldrum (10 p.). -- Some mental health implications of fostering and daily minding of Nigerian children in Britain / Jenny M Leishman (10 p.). -- Sociocultural determinants of psychological disorder in a modernizing African society / Olayiwola A Erinosho (12 p.). -- Epidemiology of mental disorders in Africa / M.O Olatawura (7 p.).
• Spirit possession cults in Irigwe, Nigeria : an indigenous response to severe separation depression / Walter H Sangree (16 p.). -- The use of repertory grid technique in evaluating indigenous concepts of mental illness in Uganda / John Orley (7 p.). -- Concept of mental illness among Ivoriens / B Claver (3 p.). -- Concepts of illness among the mentally ill in Kenya / P.O Onyango (6 p.). -- Lying and culture : a West African case study / Leonard Bloom (11 p.). -- The evolution of psychiatric care in Zimbabwe / William Murdoch (5 p.). -- Social psychiatry in French-speaking Africa / Rene Collignon (20 p.). -- Some sociomedical attributes of chronic psychiatric patients in Nigeria / A.O Odejide (3 p.). -- Social mobility and mental health / Robert F Eshleman (2 p.).
• The relevance of family therapy to Africa / Nora Wilson (4 p.). -- Psychiatry, socio-economic development and the state / Neuma Aguiar (5 p.). -- Internal migration and mental illness : the case of Maiduguri, Nigeria / Delroy M Louden (4 p.). -- Role strain and working mothers in an urban centre in Nigeria : some implications for mental health / Catherine M Di Domenico (9 p.). -- Defensive attribution and attitude to mental illness / Dennis C Ugwuegbu (9 p.). -- Attitudes of illiterate Nigerian to mental illness / Ayo Binitie (4 p.). -- Attitudes of Nigerian nurses toward mental illness / Rosaline O Olade (6 p.). -- Ambivalence of "Westernized" professionals in Africa toward traditional medicine / Victor R Adebimpe (5 p.). -- Case report on a vagrant psychotic / Supo Laosebikan (4 p.). -- Why should Nigeria bother about psychiatrists? / John C Ebie (32 p.). -- Which therapeutic model for Africa? / Alexander Boroffka (8 p.). -- The Ogun State approach to developing mental health service for the grassroots / Akolawole Ayorinde (6 p.). -- Aro village system in perspective / R. Olukayode Jegede (5 p.). -- Behaviour therapy model in mental health planning for Africa / J.O Akinboye (3 p.). -- The role of prophetic and healing sects in the management of mental illness / C. Onyeka Nwanunobi (5 p.). -- Healing methods of a prayer house in Enugu, Nigeria / Peter O Ebigbo (4 p.).

ISBN

• 9781211326
• 9789781211324

LCCN

84254673

OCLC

• ocm09752812
• 9752812
• SCSB-91474

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library