
- Wiley
Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health


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- Mario Incayawar
- Wiley
- Hardcover
- 9780470516836
- 9.8 X 6.8 X 0.8 inches
- 1.45 pounds
- Medical > Psychiatry - General
- English

Book Description
- First book on traditional healing and transcultural psychiatry
Delineates the knowledge and clinical skills of traditional healers from diverse cultural areas around the world - Describes the clinical and social roles of traditional healers in their communities and the challenges of constructing national mental health programs that include traditional knowledge and healing techniques
- Assesses issues on efficacy and safety of traditional healers' interventions
- Includes contributions from leading scholars in this field from South Africa, India, New Zealand, Andorra, Canada, USA, Italy, and the Quichua and Sioux Lakota Nations of South and North America
- Theme of culture versus science: The psychiatrists discuss the effects of local culture upon mental health and consider the impact, benefit and incorporation of traditional healing as a tool for the clinical psychiatrist.
- Easy to use with case studies and vignettes throughout and a glossary to explain any technical terms
Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of a wide array of mental health trainees, researchers and professionals interested in cultural psychiatry in general and the role of traditional healers around the world.
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