The movement for global mental health: critical views from South and Southeast Asia

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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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Lang, Claudia, Sax, William
Format: E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2021
Schriftenreihe:Social studies in Asian medicine
Links:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789048550135/type/BOOK
Zusammenfassung: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 "mental disorders" can clearly be identified; that they are primarily of biological origin; that the world is currently facing an "epidemic" of them; that the most appropriate treatments for them normally involve psycho-pharmaceutical drugs; and that local or indigenous therapies are of little interest or importance for treating them.
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (346 Seiten)
ISBN:9789048550135