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Mental health, race, and culture
- Title
- Mental health, race, and culture / Suman Fernando ; consultant editor, Jo Campling.
- Author
- Fernando, Suman.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RC455.4.E8 F468 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Campling, Jo.
- Description
- ix, 246 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- This second edition presents a critical account of Western psychiatry and psychology seen from a cross-cultural perspective that addresses ways in which ideas about race and racism continue to influence theory and practice in the field.
- Subject
- Psychiatry, Transcultural
- Cross-cultural studies
- Psychiatry
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Race Relations
- Ethnopsychology
- 44.16 mental health service
- Cross-cultural studies
- Psychiatry, Transcultural
- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
- Psychosoziale Versorgung
- Geestelijke gezondheid
- Transculturele psychiatrie
- Etnische betrekkingen
- Großbritannien
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-232) and index.
- Contents
- Theory and Tradition -- Race, culture and racism -- Culture and race -- Myths and realities of race -- Mental health and mental disorder across cultures -- Health, illness and madness -- Worldviews: psychology, religion and health -- Distress: idioms of expression -- Coping with stress -- Culture of psychiatry -- History -- Diagnosis -- Medical belief systems -- Holism, mind and body -- Racism in psychiatry and psychology -- Mind and mental illness -- Psychological and intellectual differences -- Post-war psychiatry and psychology -- Diagnosis -- Post-war social and cultural studies -- Practice and Innovation -- Psychiatry applied universally -- Racial bias -- The global scene: psychiatric imperialism -- Colour-blind, culture-blind psychiatry -- Asian and African 'therapy' for 'mental health problems' -- Asian approaches -- African approaches -- Cross-cultural collaboration -- Technologies for mental health -- Psychiatric techniques -- Herbal remedies -- Acupuncture -- Yoga -- Japanese psychotherapies -- Healing and liberation techniques -- Mental health for all -- Redefining mental illness -- Restructuring mental health -- Mental health promotion -- Spirituality and mental health.
- ISBN
- 0333960262
- 9780333960264
- LCCN
- 2001036098
- OCLC
- ocm47056383
- 47056383
- SCSB-1262222
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library