Psychoanalysis in an Age of Accelerating Cultural Change: Spiritual
Globalization addresses the current status of mental health work in
the public and private sectors. The careful, thorough, approach to
the individual person characteristic of psychoanalysis is mostly
the province of an affluent few. Meanwhile, community-based mental
health treatment, given shrinking budgets, tends to emphasize
medication and short-term therapies. In an increasingly diverse
society, considerations of culture in mental health treatment are
given short shrift, despite obligatory nods to cultural competence.
The field of mental health has suffered from the mutual isolation
of psychoanalysis, community-based clinical work, and cultural
studies. Here, Neil Altman shows how these areas of study and
practice require and enrich each other - the field of
psychoanalysis benefits by engaging marginalized communities;
community-based clinical work benefits from psychoanalytic
concepts, while all forms of clinical work benefit from awareness
of culture. Including reports of clinical experiences and
programmatic developments from around the world, its international
scope explores the operation of culture and cultural differences in
conceptions of mental health. In addition the book addresses the
origin and treatment of mental illness, from notions of spirit
possession treated by shamans, to conceptions of psychic trauma, to
biological understandings and pharmacological treatments. In the
background of this discussion is globalization, the impact of which
is tracked in terms of its psychological effects on people, as well
as on the resources and programs available to provide psychological
care around the world. As a unique examination of current mental
health work, this book will appeal to psychoanalysts,
psychotherapists, community-based mental health workers, and
students in Cultural Studies. Neil Altman is a psychoanalytic
psychologist, Visiting Professor at Ambedkar University of Delhi,
India, and faculty and supervisor at the William Alanson White
Institute. He is an Honorary Member of the William Alanson White
Society and Editor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Author of
The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture through a
Psychoanalytic Lens (Routledge, 2nd edition, 2010)
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