Mental health worldwide : culture, globalization and development / Suman Fernando.
| Author/creator | Fernando, Suman author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, [2014] |
| Copyright Date | ©2014 |
| Description | 1 online resource (210 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "'Mental Health Worldwide' offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. The foundational concepts of the dominant models in psychiatry, however, are understood very differently in non-western cultural traditions. Whilst there is a worldwide need to emphasize mental health in the context of public health, the 'traditional psychiatric' model, with its focus on medicalization and drug-based 'cures', may not always be appropriate, and its approaches should not be employed unquestioningly. Here, Suman Fernando takes a much-needed critical look at the field of psychiatry in an international context, proposing suggestions for advancing mental health and wellbeing in low and middle income countries in a way that is ethical, sustainable and culturally sensitive. These lessons can also be applied to developing service provision in the West in our increasingly globalized world"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Fernando, Suman. Mental health worldwide. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, [2014] 9781137329585 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781137329608 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1137329602 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1137329599 |
| ISBN | 9781137329592 |
| Standard identifier# | 9781137329592 |
| Stock number | 669018 Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgraveconnect.com |
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