Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Mental Health
1. Historical Background: Medical Anthropology and Global Mental Health
2. Anthropological Methods in Global Mental Health Research
Part I: Social and Structural Origins of Mental Illness in Global Context
	3. Water, Worry, and Doña Paloma: Why Water Security is Fundamental to Global Mental Health
	4. Life in Transit: Mental Health, Temporality, and Urban Displacement for Iraqi Refugees
	5. Reconnecting Hope: Khat Consumption, Time, and Mental Well-Being among Unemployed Young Men in Jimma, Ethiopia
	6. The Greater Good: Surviving Sexual Violence for Schooling
	7. Grandmothers, Children, and Intergenerational Distress in Nicaraguan Transnational Families
	8. Addiction in Colombia: Local Lives, Broader Lessons
Part II: Treatment Approaches and Access to Care in Low- and High-Resource Settings
	9. Life “Under the Wire”: Perceived Discrimination and Mental Health of Haitian Migrants in the Dominican Republic
	10. Festive Fighting and Forgiving: Ritual and Resilience among Indigenous Indian “Conservation Refugees”
	11. Who Belongs in a Psychiatric Hospital? Post-Socialist Romania in the Age of Globalizing Psychiatry
	12. The “Cost” of Health Care: Poverty, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrants in the United States
	13. The Few, the Proud: Women Combat Veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the United States
	14. Cultural Competence and Its Discontents: Reflections on a Mandatory Course for Psychiatry Residents
Part III: Task-Sharing and Alternative Care Models
	15. People, Praxis, and Power in Global Mental Health: Anthropology and the Experience Gap
	16. “Thinking Too Much” in the Central Plateau: An Apprenticeship Approach to Treating Local Distress in Haiti
	17. Task-Shifting in Global Health: Mental Health Implications for Community Health Workers and Volunteers
	18. “We Can’t Find This Spirit of Help”: Mental Health, Social Issues, and Community Home-Based Care Providers in Central Mozambique
	19. Shared Humanity among Nonspecialist Peer Care Providers for Persons Living with Psychosis: Implications for Global Mental Health
Conclusion: A Road Map for Anthropology and Global Mental Health
Index
Contributors