Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers - Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health (Hardcover)

• A unique resource n traditional healing and transcultural psychiatry
• Delineates the knowledge and clinical skills of traditional healers from diverse cultural areas around the world
• Describes the clinical and social roles of traditional healers in their communities and the challenges of constructing national mental health programs that include traditional knowledge and healing techniques
• Assesses issues on efficacy and safety of traditional healers′ interventions
• Includes contributions from leading scholars in this field from South Africa, India, New Zealand, Andorra, Canada, USA, Italy, and the Quichua and Sioux Lakota Nations of South and North America
• Theme of culture versus science: 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 the clinical psychiatrist.
• Easy to use with case studies and vignettes throughout and a glossary to explain any technical terms

Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of a wide array of mental health trainees, researchers and professionals interested in cultural psychiatry in general and the role of traditional healers around the world. 

From the Back Cover
Up to 85 percent of the world’s population relies on traditional healers and medicines to meet their health care needs. In Uganda, for example, the ratio of traditional healers to population is 1:200, contrasting dramatically with biomedically trained health professionals, for which the ratio is 1:20,000. In the Andes of South America, there are no psychiatric or mental health services available to the Indigenous Peoples who therefore depend entirely on traditional healers, family and community support to cope with their mental health problems and to relieve their psychological distress.

Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers focuses on the significant contribution of traditional healers to the wellbeing of most of the world’s population, and considers the role of these unwitting partners in global mental health.

•           This book presents original research data, clinical experiences, case vignettes, and pilot psychiatric collaborative programs between traditional healers and psychiatrists in countries around the world 

•           All chapters highlight, in various ways, the unanticipated and often unrecognized contributions of traditional healers and traditional psychiatric knowledge to global mental health

•           Features a Foreword by Dr Goffredo Bartocci, President–elect of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry

Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health makes fascinating reading for clinicians, researchers, community mental health practitioners, educators, and mental health policy makers, as well those interested in cultural psychiatry and the role of traditional healers in mental health.

• Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Medical & Healthcare Practitioners > Other Branches of Medicine > Psychiatry
• Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Psychology & Psychiatry > Psychiatry
• Books > Science & Nature > Reference > Psychology & Psychiatry
• Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical > Medicine & Nursing > Medical Sciences A-Z > Psychiatry
• Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Anthropology

• Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
• I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
• I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.