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 /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Description:	1 online resource (i, 346 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Social Studies in Asian Medicine Social studies in Asian medicine.
Subject:	Mental health -- Cross-cultural studies. Mental illness -- Cross-cultural studies. Mental health -- South Asia. Mental health -- Southeast Asia. Mental illness -- South Asia. Mental illness -- Southeast Asia. Psychiatry. Cultural pluralism. Cultural Diversity Cultural pluralism. Mental health. Mental illness. Psychiatry. South Asia. Southeast Asia. Electronic books. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13457658

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Other authors / contributors:	Sax, William Sturman, 1957- editor. Lang, Claudia, editor.
ISBN:	9789048550135 9048550130
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 07, 2021).
Summary:	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. Instead, the contributors argue that labeling mental suffering as "illness" or "disorder" is often highly problematic; that the countries of South and Southeast Asia have abundant, though non- psychiatric, resources for dealing with it; that its causes are often social and biographical; and that many non-pharmacological therapies are effective for dealing with it. In short, they advocate a thoroughgoing mental health pluralism. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Other form:	Print version: Sax, William. Movement for Global Mental Health. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2021

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Summary:	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. Instead, the contributors argue that labeling mental suffering as "illness" or "disorder" is often highly problematic; that the countries of South and Southeast Asia have abundant, though non- psychiatric, resources for dealing with it; that its causes are often social and biographical; and that many non-pharmacological therapies are effective for dealing with it. In short, they advocate a thoroughgoing mental health pluralism.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (i, 346 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9789048550135 9048550130