Psychiatrists and traditional healers: unwitting partners in global mental health
Incayawar, Mario
Wintrob, Ronald
The idea for this book emerged from a unique international symposium entitledPsychiatrists and Healers: Unwitting Partners - A Challenge for TransculturalPsychiatry in Times of Globalization, and the result is a book that responds to the intense current interest in defining and understanding the contributionof traditional medical knowledge and the intervention techniques of traditional healers to national mental health services around the world. It is possibleto denote a strong theme of culture versus science in this text, as the psychiatrists discuss the effects of local culture upon mental health and consider the impact, benefit and incorporation of traditional healing as a tool for theclinical psychiatrist. The book is easy to use with case studies and vignettes throughout and a glossary to explain any technical terms.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-51683-6
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 294
- Fecha Publicación: 27/03/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés