The Culture Of Mental Illness And Psychiatric Practice In Africa
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The Culture Of Mental Illness And Psychiatric Practice In Africa
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Author : Emmanuel Akyeampong
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-01
The Culture Of Mental Illness And Psychiatric Practice In Africa written by Emmanuel Akyeampong and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-01 with Psychology categories.
In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and other chronic illness on mental health. While problems are rampant and carry real and devastating consequences, this volume promotes an understanding of the African mental health landscape in service of reform.
Culture And Mental Health
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Author : Leslie Swartz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Culture And Mental Health written by Leslie Swartz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
This book introduces key issues in understanding social and cultural factors as they relate to mental health and illness, and to a southern African understanding and construction of these categories. It lays out central international and local debates in the field of mental health in an accessible way, making use of extensive research and case studies. Central theoretical debates (such as those between relativism and universalism, and between hermeneutical and critical approaches) are presented early in the text, and referred to throughout the more applied chapters. The aim is to equip the reader to assess the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to understanding specific aspects of mental health and illness. Stressed throughout is the role of the mental health professional in the construction of ideas of mental health and illness.
Race And Culture In Psychiatry Psychology Revivals
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Author : Suman Fernando
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-10-14
Race And Culture In Psychiatry Psychology Revivals written by Suman Fernando and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-14 with Psychology categories.
As psychiatry has developed it has proved to be susceptible to the influence of contemporary social and political mores. With its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, psychiatry evolved as an ethnocentric body of knowledge, the vehicle of implicit and overt racism. Originally published in 1988 this author, however, saw no reason why the contemporary psychiatrist should not challenge this ethnocentrism. He provides a critical account of the development of psychiatry in relation to its cultural context and then examined contemporary practice of the time in the light of this development. Throughout, the book is informed by an awareness of issues of race and culture and of their difficult interactions, the author emphasising both the frequency of racist attitudes and the very real cultural distinctions in our society, distinctions that can be used to mask what are actually racist sentiments. What emerges is not just a plea for an anti-racist, culture sensitive psychiatry, but a blueprint for how this can be brought about. He argued that the shift towards community work and social psychiatry could reorientate the profession by confronting it with its social setting and responsibilities. This book represented a significant contribution to this literature for all mental health professionals and social scientists with an interest in this field at the time; the author has gone on to write many more.
Culture And Common Mental Disorders In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Vickram Patel
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Culture And Common Mental Disorders In Sub Saharan Africa written by Vickram Patel and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Psychology categories.
The influence of culture on mental illness has been the subject of considerable academic investigation and debate in recent years. This debate has provoked concerns about the validity and reliability of older methodologies which emphasised either universal characteristics of disorders which were heavily biased towards Euro-American systems, or the culturally relativist approach which saw psychological disorders as products largely of their own culture. The "new" cross-cultural psychiatry proposed that the integration of ethnographic and epidemiological techniques be required to enable a culture sensitive psychiatric model to emerge. This monograph describes a series of research studies conducted in primary care in Harare, Zimbabwe, focusing on the most frequent of all psychological disorders, Common Mental Disorders (CMD). The four consecutive studies are unique in several respects, most notably, the involvement of both biomedical and traditional health care providers at all stages, the development of an indigenous measure of CMD for use in epidemiological investigations, the examination of the relationship between local and biomedical models of psychological disorder and the sociodemographic and economic risk factors for CMD. The experiences and findings of these studies provide new directions in our understanding of the contribution of culture to the presentation, assessment, classification and risk factors for CMD in primary care in an urban African setting. The methodology used also sets out a model for epidemiological research in other areas of mental health in different cultural settings.
Mental Health And Psychiatry In Africa
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Author : David Westley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Mental Health And Psychiatry In Africa written by David Westley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Medical categories.
"USEFUL TO THOSE SEEKING TO INITIATE RESEARCH, AS WELL AS THOSE INVOLVED IN ETHNOPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH."--CHOICE. Do Africans experience the same mental illnesses as people in the Western world? What attitudes do Africans have toward the mentally ill? What part do sorcery & spirit possession play in traditional African psychiatry? These are among the questions addressed by this annotated bibliography of more than 900 books & articles published since the groundbreaking 1960 work, SEARCH FOR SECURITY: AN ETHNOPSYCHIATRIC STUDY OF RURAL GHANA. This volume tracks the rise of psychiatry as a science in Africa & the myriad ways in which indigenous & modern medicine are combined. A glossary of terms, & two indexes--one by geographic & ethnic group & one by subject-- make this an easy to use & rewarding guide to transcultural psychiatry.
Black Skin White Coats
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Author : Matthew M. Heaton
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Black Skin White Coats written by Matthew M. Heaton and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with Medical categories.
Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s. Working in the contexts of decolonization and anticolonial nationalism, Nigerian psychiatrists sought to replace racist colonial psychiatric theories about the psychological inferiority of Africans with a universal and egalitarian model focusing on broad psychological similarities across cultural and racial boundaries. Particular emphasis is placed on Dr. T. Adeoye Lambo, the first indigenous Nigerian to earn a specialty degree in psychiatry in the United Kingdom in 1954. Lambo returned to Nigeria to become the medical superintendent of the newly founded Aro Mental Hospital in Abeokuta, Nigeria’s first “modern” mental hospital. At Aro, Lambo began to revolutionize psychiatric research and clinical practice in Nigeria, working to integrate “modern” western medical theory and technologies with “traditional” cultural understandings of mental illness. Lambo’s research focused on deracializing psychiatric thinking and redefining mental illness in terms of a model of universal human similarities that crossed racial and cultural divides. Black Skin, White Coats is the first work to focus primarily on black Africans as producers of psychiatric knowledge and as definers of mental illness in their own right. By examining the ways that Nigerian psychiatrists worked to integrate their psychiatric training with their indigenous backgrounds and cultural and civic nationalisms, Black Skin, White Coats provides a foil to Frantz Fanon’s widely publicized reactionary articulations of the relationship between colonialism and psychiatry. Black Skin, White Coats is also on the cutting edge of histories of psychiatry that are increasingly drawing connections between local and national developments in late-colonial and postcolonial settings and international scientific networks. Heaton argues that Nigerian psychiatrists were intimately aware of the need to engage in international discourses as part and parcel of the transformation of psychiatry at home.
Mental Health In A Multi Ethnic Society
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Author : Dr Suman Fernando, Dr
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-04-07
Mental Health In A Multi Ethnic Society written by Dr Suman Fernando, Dr and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-07 with Medical categories.
A thought-provoking handbook for practitioners, students and trainers in the mental health field. Addresses controversial issues and offers revealing insights and intelligent suggestions for all those involved with mental health.
Of Spirits And Madness An American Psychiatrist In Africa
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Author : Paul Linde
language : en
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Release Date : 2002-09
Of Spirits And Madness An American Psychiatrist In Africa written by Paul Linde and has been published by McGraw Hill Professional this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Emergency-room psychiatrist Dr. Paul Linde came to Zimbabwe to take the helm at the Harare Central Hospital, where dozens of patients present new challenges every day. From a case of factitious disorder -- in which a young man treats his own leg like a pin cushion -- to a woman suffering from kufungisisa, the strange ailment of "thinking too much," Linde tells of his patients' demons and their difficulties in a vivid portrait of a world where witchcraft still reigns and psychosis is stigmatized as a contagious illness. Linde presents a wry and inspiring tale of medicine at the crossroads of two cultures. Book jacket.
Mental Health In Africa And The Americas Today
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Author : Samuel O. Okpaku
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Mental Health In Africa And The Americas Today written by Samuel O. Okpaku and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Medical categories.
Contemporary Issues In Mental Health Care In Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : Omigbodun, Olayinka
language : en
Publisher: Book Builders
Release Date : 2018-03-13
Contemporary Issues In Mental Health Care In Sub Saharan Africa written by Omigbodun, Olayinka and has been published by Book Builders this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-13 with Medical categories.
Seventy percent of the global burden of mental disorders is located in low and middle income countries (LMIC),including sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, in Africa,only 0.62% of the national health budget is allocated to mental health compared to a global median of 2.8% and 5% in Europe. The government is the source of funding in 62%of patients with severe mental disorder in the World Health Organisation (WHO), Africa Region, the lowest of all the WHO regions, and lower compared to a global median of 79%. This is compounded by poor resources, with mental health outpatient facilities in WHO Africa Region being less that 10% of the global median. To address these problems, the WHO launched its Mental Health Action Gap Programme (mhGAP) in 2008, to scale-up mental health services in low and middle income countries (LMIC). The book is directed to all policy makers in sub-Saharan Africa to aid decision making about the urgent need for sustainable and relevant mental health care strategies, and the important areas that need priority. The book should be helpful to local and international researchers in formulating research questions relevant to the African continent and it will be of interest to medical practitioners and students in the region as adjunct to standard text books.