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Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry
Bhugra, Dinesh and Kamaldeep Bhui (Eds)
Cambridge University Press / Softcover / 2010-08-01 / 0521173388
/ Psychiatry
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610 pages
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Cultural psychiatry is concerned with understanding the impact of social and cultural differences and similarities on mental illness and its treatments. This book integrates both theoretical and practical knowledge, and describes a framework for the provision of mental healthcare in a multi-cultural/multi-racial society and global economy.

Contents

Foreword Pedro Ruiz

Part I. Theoretical Background:
1. Cultural psychiatry in historical perspective Laurence J. Kirmayer
2. Anthropology and psychiatry: the contemporary convergence Janis H. Jenkins
3. Suicide, violence and culture Michel Tousignant and Arlene Laliberté
4. Psychology and cultural psychiatry Malcolm MacLachlan
5. Spirituality and cultural psychiatry Kate M Loewenthal
6. Culture, ethnicity and biological psychiatry Chia-Hui Chen, Shi-Kai Liu and Keh-Ming Lin
7. Ethnic inequalities and cultural capability framework in mental health care Kamaldeep Bhui and Dinesh Bhugra

Part II. Culture and Mental Health:
8. Culture and psychopathology Wen-Shing Tseng
9. Developmental aspects of cultural psychiatry Joseph Westermeyer
10. Explanatory models in psychiatry Daryl Somma and Mitchell G. Weiss
11. Culture bound syndromes Sisira Siribaddana, Athula Sumathipala and Dinesh Bhugra
12. Psychiatric epidemiology and its contributions to cultural psychiatry Robert Kohn and Kamaldeep Bhui
13. Acculturation and identity John W. Berry
14. Cultural consonance William W. Dressler

Part III. Culture and Mental Disorders:
15. Neurosis Geetha Desai and Santosh K. Chaturvedi
16. Schizophrenia and related psychosis Assen Jablensky
17. Affective disorders Claudia Cooper and Paul Bebbington
18. Substance misuse Susan Salas, John Strang and Shamil Wanigaratne
19. Suicidal Behaviour Keith Hawton and Sarah A. Fortune
20. Personality disorders and culture Matthieu Crews, Paul Moran and Dinesh Bhugra
21. Culture and obsessive-compulsive disorder Padmal de Silva and Dinesh Bhugra
22. Culture and eating disorders Mervat Nasser
23. Childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders Nisha Dogra, Panos Vostanis and Niranjan Karnik
24. Culture and schizophrenia Thomas Stompe and Alexander Friedmann
25. Disorders of aging across cultures Sheena MacKenzie and Ajit Shah

Part IV. Theoretical Aspects of Management:
26. An ecological-cultural-historical model for extreme stress: a 'Traumascape' Joop de Jong
27. Sexual dysfunction across culture Padmal de Silva and Dinesh Bhugra
28. Therapist-patient interactions and expectations Digby Tantam
29. Developing Mental Health Services for multicultural societies Harry Minas
30. Psychopharmacology across cultures Shu-Han Yu, Shi-Kai Liu and Keh-Ming Lin
31. Psychotherapy across cultures Digby Tantam
32. Psychological interventions and assessments Shahe Kazarian
33. Spiritual aspects of management Andrew Sims
34. Cultural aspects of suicide Gwendolyn Portzky and Kees van Heeringen

Part V. Management with Special Groups:
35. Intellectual disabilities across cultures Nick Bouras and Jean O'Hara
36. Child psychiatry across cultures Nisha Dogra, Panos Vostanis and Niranjan Karnik
37. Management of sexual dysfunction across cultures Padmal de Silva and Dinesh Bhugra
38. Refugees and Mental Health Nasir Warfa and Kamaldeep Bhui
39. Working with elderly persons across cultures Iqbal Ahmed and Carl I. Cohen
40. Working in liaison psychiatry Jaideep Thoduguli and Santosh K. Chaturvedi

Part VI. Cultural Research and Training:
41. Scope of cultural psychiatry Horacio Fabrega Jr
42. Coping with stressors: racism and migration Larkin Feeney and Brendan D. Kelly
Conclusions Dinesh Bhugra and Kamaldeep Bhui.

Contributors:


Pedro Ruiz, Laurence J. Kirmayer, Janis H. Jenkins, Michel Tousignant, Arlene Laliberté, Malcolm MacLachlan, Kate M. Loewenthal, Chia-Hui Chen, Shi-Kai Liu, Keh-Ming Lin, Kamaldeep Bhui, Dinesh Bhugra, Wen-Shing Tseng, Joseph Westermeyer, Daryl Somma, Mitchell G. Weiss, Sisira Siribaddana, Athula Sumathipala, John W. Berry, William W. Dressler, Geetha Desai, Santosh K. Chaturvedi, Assen Jablensky, Claudia Cooper, Paul Bebbington, Susan Salas, John Strang, Shamil Wanigaratne, Keith Hawton, Sarah A. Fortune, Matthieu Crews, Paul Moran, Padmal de Silva, Mervat Nasser, Nisha Dogra, Panos Vostanis, Niranjan Karnik, Thomas Stompe, Alexander Friedmann, Sheena MacKenzie, Ajit Shah, Joop de Jong, Digby Tantam, Harry Minas, Shu-Han Yu, Keh-Ming Lin, Shahe Kazarian, Andrew Sims, Gwendolyn Portzky, Kees van Heeringen, Nick Bouras, Jean O'Hara, Iqbal Ahmed, Carl I. Cohen, Jaideep Thoduguli, Horacio Fabrega Jr., Larkin Feeney, Brendan D. Kelly

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