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Decolonizing Global Mental Health - The psychiatrization of the majority world (Paperback, New)
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Decolonizing Global Mental Health - The psychiatrization of the majority world (Paperback, New)
Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology
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Decolonizing Global Mental Health is a book that maps a strange
irony. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Movement for
Global Mental Health are calling to 'scale up' access to
psychological and psychiatric treatments globally, particularly
within the global South. Simultaneously, in the global North,
psychiatry and its often chemical treatments are coming under
increased criticism (from both those who take the medication and
those in the position to prescribe it). The book argues that it is
imperative to explore what counts as evidence within Global Mental
Health, and seeks to de-familiarize current 'Western' conceptions
of psychology and psychiatry using postcolonial theory. It leads us
to wonder whether we should call for equality in global access to
psychiatry, whether everyone should have the right to a
psychotropic citizenship and whether mental health can, or should,
be global. As such, it is ideal reading for undergraduate and
postgraduate students, as well as researchers in the fields of
critical psychology and psychiatry, social and health psychology,
cultural studies, public health and social work.
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