The Movement for Global Mental Health : : Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia /

The Movement for Global Mental Health : : Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia / / ed. by Claudia Lang, William Sax.

In this volume, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH), which seeks to export psychiatry throughout the world. They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that "...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Bihari Mukharji, Projit,
Das, Anindya,
Ecks, Stefan,
Halliburton, Murphy,
Hornbacher, Annette,
Lang, Claudia,
Naraindas, Harish,
Quack, Johannes,
Rao, Mohan,
Sax, William S.,
HerausgeberIn:
Lang, Claudia,
Sax, William,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Social Studies in Asian Medicine ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (346 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables
  • 1 Global Mental Health
  • Critical Histories
  • 2 Mental Ills for All
  • 3 Schizoid Balinese?
  • 4 Misdiagnosis
  • The Limits of Global Mental Health
  • 5 Jinns and the Proletarian Mumin Subject
  • 6 Psychedelic Therapy
  • Alternatives
  • 7 The House of Love and the Mental Hospital
  • 8 Ayurvedic Psychiatry and the Moral Physiology of Depression in Kerala
  • 9 Global Mental Therapy
  • Afterwords
  • 10 Global Mental Health
  • 11 “Treatment” and Why We Need Alternatives
  • Index

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