Эта необычная книга отвечает на растущий интерес к определению и пониманию вклада традиционных медицинских знаний и методов вмешательства традиционных целителей в национальные системы охраны психического здоровья по всему миру. Это первая книга о традиционном целительстве и транскультурной психиатрии. В ней описываются знания и клинические навыки традиционных целителей из разных культурных регионов мира. Рассматриваются клинические и социальные роли традиционных целителей в их сообществах, а также проблемы построения национальных систем охраны психического здоровья с включением традиционных знаний и методов лечения. Оцениваются вопросы эффективности и безопасности вмешательств традиционных целителей.
Книга включает вклад ведущих ученых в этой области из Южной Африки, Индии, Новой Зеландии, Андорры, Канады, США, Италии, а также представителей народов кечуа и сиу из Южной и Северной Америки. Тема культуры versus науки: психиатры обсуждают влияние местной культуры на психическое здоровье и рассматривают воздействие, пользу и включение традиционного целительства как инструмента для клинического психиатра.
Книга содержит практические кейсы и примеры, а также глоссарий для объяснения специальных терминов. Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health - ценное дополнение для специалистов в области психического здоровья, интересующихся культурной психиатрией и ролью традиционных целителей во всем мире.
This exceptional book deals with the issue of incorporating traditional forms of healing into mental health care, a field that currently attracts intense interest. Using traditional healer concepts and interventions, this book aims to define and understand how such practices may contribute to the mental healthcare provision around the globe.
It provides a comprehensive study of the domains of knowledge and approach of traditional healers coming from different cultural arenas in different parts of the world, which sets it apart from other works focusing narrowly on a single tradition. The book discusses the challenges faced by the national mental health systems that aim to incorporate traditional healing practices into their healthcare mix. It assesses the ecological validity and therapeutic potential of these traditional and modern innovative healing approaches.
The authors also provide important insights into the interaction of culture and science within the context of mental healthcare and enable practitioners to address the complexities and nuances inherent when working with and across generic and specific contexts. There are numerous cases and examples presented, along with an extensive glossary of terms elucidating unique aspects of the healing narrative.
Psychiatrists and Traditional healers: unwitting partners in global mental health will be of value to a wide range of professionals and students in mental and cultural health fields alike.
This exceptional book addresses the intense current misunderstanding about defining and comprehending the influence of traditional medicinal knowledge and techniques adopted by traditional healers within indicators of the worldwide mental health care services. While it is the first book on this specialty branch, it meticulously delineates different types of traditional healer's know-how and clinical abilities derived from various cultural backgrounds around the globe. It also highlights various kinds of clinical and social обеспечении traditional healers among the communities they work and discloses difficulties of creating national mental wellbeing programs encompassing traditional knowledge, healing processes, etc. Also upon discussing intervention effectiveness and safety about traditional healers, this publication takes into account important contributions from progressive scholars working in that field, native African patriarchs, industrialized nation countries, Australia, United States of America, Western Europe, South American Natives, Asian states, quite a few groups of without whom this write-up would have been perhaps abstruse and impenetrable for scientists from outside those regions. Issues like role versus role cultural traditions face military psychiatric argumen.
Электронная Книга «Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers» написана автором Mario Incayawar в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780470741061
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This exceptional book responds to the intense current interest in defining and understanding the contribution of traditional medical knowledge and the intervention techniques of traditional healers to national mental health services around the world. 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.
