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Anthropological Approaches to Psychological Medicine
`There are many insights and nuggets of value in this collection. Maurice Lipsedge reminds us how badly psychiatry needs anthropology's insights.This book should contribute to the …
Pathology and Identity
The first new religion in the Caribbean since Rastafari, the Earth People draw on West African sources, assert a renascent African identity, and celebrate female creativity. They …
Sadness, Depression, and the Dark Night of the Soul
Revealing a tension between the medical model of depression and the very different language of theology, this book explores how religious people and communities understand severe …
Aliens and Alienists
In this classic text the authors examine the links between racism, psychological ill health and inadequate treatment of ethnic minorities. Through a series of case studies they …
Intercultural Therapy
Intercultural Therapy: Challenges, Insights and Developments examines the impact of the work of the Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre in North London, which focused on …
Sadness, Depression, and the Dark Night of the Soul
Revealing a tension between the medical model of depression and the very different language of theology, this book explores how religious people and communities understand severe …
Pathology and Identity
The first new religion in the Caribbean since Rastafari, the Earth People draw on West African sources, assert a renascent African identity, and celebrate female creativity. They …
Cosmos, Gods and Madmen
The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune …
On Knowing and Not Knowing in the Anthropology of Medicine
Social scientific studies of medicine typically assume that systems of medical knowledge are uniform and consistent. But while anthropologists have long rejected the notion that …
Aliens and Alienists
In this classic text the authors examine the links between racism, psychological ill health and inadequate treatment of ethnic minorities. Through a series of case studies they …
Intercultural Therapy
There are many problems in working psychotherapeutically across cultures, with numerous examples of failure to understand cultural issues. For example, the ignorance of traditional …
Pathologies of the West
Psychiatry conventionally regards spirit possession and dramatic healing rituals in non-European societies as forms of abnormality if not mental illness. Roland Littlewood, a …