Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (616 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1108431534 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 723 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Laurence J. He founded and directs the annual Summer Program and Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry at McGill University. . He has produced and directed over a dozen ethnographic films on subjects ranging from genocide, the sex trade, mental illness, kinship, ritual and further related topics.Constance A. He has been conducting psychological and visual anthropological research in Indonesia, on the islands of Bali and Java, yearly for the past twenty y
For far too long scientific endeavours have been enslaved by disciplinary part-objects, whether anatomical, physiological, or chemical. The powerful blend of perspectives reveals a more wholesome, humanistic, and scientifically elegant understanding of brain and mind. Suffering and disability of these kinds emerge as the result of multiple factors, including the interlinked and equally important biological and personal, social and cultural.' Jennifer Radden, Metapsychology Online Reviews (metapsychologyntalhelp) . The editors and authors should be very proud to have contributed to a new integrated science of psychiatry, at th
In advancing ecosystemic models of mental disorders, contributors challenge reductionistic models and culture-bound perspectives and highlight possibilities for a more transdisciplinary, integrated approach to research, mental health policy, and clinical practice.. Taken together, the contributions point to the need for fundamental shifts in psychiatric theory and practice: • Restoring phenomenology to its rightful place in research and practice; • Advancing the social and cultural neuroscience of brain-person-environment systems over time and across social contexts; • Understanding how self-awareness, interpersonal interactions, and larger social processes give rise to vicious circles that constitute mental health problems; • Locating efforts to help and heal within the local and global social, economic, and political contexts that influence how we frame problems and imagine so