Decolonization of Psychiatry in Jamaica: Madnificent Irations

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Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
	Bibliography
Chapter 2 The History of Madness in Jamaica 1494–1960
	The Post-Emancipation Period: Circa 1834–1900
	Toward a New Paradigm of the History of Madness
	The Later Colonial Period: Circa 1900–1960
	Bibliography
Chapter 3 The Challenge to the Mental Health Ideology of the Colonizer
	Bibliography
Chapter 4 Madnificent Irations: What’s in a Name?
	Bibliography
Chapter 5 Mobilizing Bellevue by Building the Garden Theatre
	Large Group Ethnohistorical Meetings
	The Madness/Badness Violence Dialectic
	The Immediate Effects of the Ethnohistorical Meetings
	The Cultural Therapy Centre
	Running a Boat
	The Cultural Therapy Program
	The Morning Session
	The Afternoon Session
	The Irations Band
	The Singers and Dancers
	Evening Entertainment at the Garden Theatre
	Bibliography
Chapter 6 Psychohistoriographic Cultural Therapy: The Technique
	Stage 1: The Ethnohistorical Meetings and the Psychohistoriographic Analysis
		Creating the Psychohistoriogram
		Establishing the Graphic Matrices
		Establishing Historical Material
		Historical Anecdotes About the Asylum
		The Musical Cultural Timeline
	Stage 2: The Creation of the Script
		Culturing and Cognitive Catalysis
		The Processes Involved in Patient Transformation
	Stage 3: Staging and Production
		The Music of Madnificent Irations
	Bibliography
Chapter 7 The Impact of Madnificent Irations
	Stages 4 and 5: Performance and Evaluation
	Bibliography
Chapter 8 Political Sequelae: Destruction of the Garden Theatre
	Bibliography
Chapter 9 Poetic Poiesis and Cultural Therapy
	The Poiesis of Psychohistoriographic Cultural Therapy
	Operational Components of PCT
	Rastafari ‘Word Sound and Power’ and PCT
	Bibliography
Chapter 10 Cultural Therapy and Social Engineering
	The Need for Social Re-engineering in Jamaica
	Media Representation Research and Psychological Deinstitutionalization
	Taking Community Engagement Cultural Therapy to Kingston’s Inner City
	The Social Re-engineering Coda
	Bibliography
Appendix
Index