Titlebook: Mental Health Worldwide; Culture, Globalizati Suman Fernando Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014

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Book 2014Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. Rooted in detailed analysis of the problems this causes, the book proposes new suggestions for advancing the field of mental health and wellbeing in a way that is ethical, sustainable and culturally sensitive.

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137329608Mental health development; transcultural psychiatry; critical psychiatry; global mental health; culture;

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Introduction, the concept of ‘globalization’ in the field of mental health means different things to different people—a matter discussed in Chapter 1. Second, the term ‘global mental health’ has been popularized and pushed recently as a new and special subject, causing confusion by linking mental health develop

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Culture and Globalization in Relation to Mental Healthpurpose of our lives, working out in practice how we get along with one another and, finally, dealing with the end of life as individuals. We tend to address these issues not only in concert with others, as communities and societies, but also as individuals. However we think of ourselves at any part

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Medicalization of Human Problems in the Westoctors who cared for inmates of institutions to house people deemed to be ‘insane’ (which had existed in Europe from the middle ages) did not work to a medical system as such but were purely custodians. But, Shorter ignores the medieval . (Islamic hospitals) of North Africa and Spain referred to in

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Mental Health and Mental Illness in Non-Western Countriesext worldwide because the language of mental health and illness has come about in a very limited part—primarily .—of a culturally diverse universe with its medical and psychological traditions being influenced very much by (western) . (see Chapters 2 and 3). In other words, the discourse in the fiel

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Colonial Psychiatry there, but not necessarily settling there in large numbers (see definitions in . by Pearsall and Trumble, 1995). Empire-building need not be a part of imperialism. In her classic book ., Ann McClintock (1995) points out: ‘Since the 1940s the U.S. imperialism-without-colonies has taken a number of d