Mental Health Worldwide

Name: Mental Health Worldwide
Author: S. Fernando

Culture, Globalization and Development

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

Palgrave Macmillan UK | 2014

ISBN13: 9781137329585

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Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. Rooted in detailed analysis of the problems this causes, the book proposes new suggestions for advancing the field of mental health and wellbeing in a way that is ethical, sustainable and culturally sensitive.

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ISBN13:9781137329585

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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PART I: CULTURAL HISTORY OF MADNESS, PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH 1. Culture and Globalization in Relation to Mental Health 2. Understanding Madness, Mental Illness and Mental Health 3. Medicalization of Human Problems in the West PART II: WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MAJORITY WORLD 4.Mental Health and Mental Illness in Non-Western Countries 5. Colonial Psychiatry PART III: PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR; EXPORTING PSYCHIATRY TO THE GLOBAL SOUTH 6. Medication Revolution and Emerging Discontents 7. Ethnic Problems in the West and Neo-Imperialism Abroad 8. International Politics of Mental Health and Psychiatry PART IV: DEVELOPING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 9. Modernizing Mental Health Services in the Global North 10. Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Global South 11. After-Thoughts: Power, Diagnosis and the Majority World

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