The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Situating Global Mental Health: Sociocultural Perspectives....Pages 1-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
Occupying Space: Mental Health Geography and Global Directions....Pages 31-50
Cross-Cultural Psychiatry and Validity in DSM-5....Pages 51-69
Historical Reflections on Mental Health and Illness: India, Japan, and the West....Pages 71-92
Reflecting on the Medicalization of Distress....Pages 93-108
Diverse Approaches to Recovery from Severe Mental Illness....Pages 109-127
Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing....Pages 129-150
Global Mental Health and Psychopharmacology in Precarious Ecologies: Anthropological Considerations for Engagement and Efficacy....Pages 151-168
Commentary on ‘Mental Health Across the Globe: Conceptual Perspectives from Social Science and the Humanities’ Section....Pages 169-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
‘Global Mental Health Spreads Like Bush Fire in the Global South’: Efforts to Scale Up Mental Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries....Pages 187-209
Community Mental Health Competencies: A New Vision for Global Mental Health....Pages 211-235
Three Challenges to a Life Course Approach in Global Mental Health: Epistemic Violence, Temporality and Forced Migration....Pages 237-256
Addressing Mental Health-related Stigma in a Global Context....Pages 257-283
The Effects of Societal Violence in War and Post-War Contexts....Pages 285-305
Medical Pluralism and Global Mental Health....Pages 307-328
Mental Health Law in a Global Context....Pages 329-349
Suicide in Low- and Middle-Income Countries....Pages 351-382
Anthropology and Global Mental Health: Depth, Breadth, and Relevance....Pages 383-401
A Multidimensional Approach to Poverty: Implications for Global Mental Health....Pages 403-428
Balancing the Local and the Global: Commentary on ‘Globalizing Mental Health: Challenges and New Visions’ Section....Pages 429-441
Front Matter....Pages 443-443
Voices from the Field: A Cambodian-led Approach to Mental Health....Pages 445-466
Synthesising Global and Local Knowledge for the Development of Maternal Mental Health Care: Two Cases from South Africa....Pages 467-486
Towards School-Based Interventions for Mental Health in Nigeria....Pages 487-507
A Family-Based Intervention for People with a Psychotic Disorder in Nicaragua....Pages 509-529
The Distress of Makutu: Some Cultural–Clinical Considerations of Māori Witchcraft....Pages 531-548
Engaging Indigenous People in Mental Health Services in Australia....Pages 549-563
Language, Measurement, and Structural Violence: Global Mental Health Case Studies from Haiti and the Dominican Republic....Pages 565-588
Taking the Psychiatrist to School: The Development of a Dream-A-World Cultural Therapy Program for Behaviorally Disturbed and Academically Underperforming Primary School Children in Jamaica....Pages 589-607
Brain Gain in Uganda: A Case Study of Peer Working as an Adjunct to Statutory Mental Health Care in a Low-Income Country....Pages 609-631
Globalisation of Pesticide Ingestion in Suicides: An Overview from a Deltaic Region of a Middle-Income Nation, India....Pages 633-655
Mapping Difficult Terrains: The Writing of Policy on Mental Health....Pages 657-678
Mental Health in Primary Health Care: The Karuna Trust Experience....Pages 679-703
Iswar Sankalpa: Experience with the Homeless Persons with Mental Illness....Pages 705-724
Commentary on ‘Case Studies of Innovative Practice and Policy’ Section....Pages 725-750
Back Matter....Pages 751-771
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