The Movement for Global Mental Health - Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia (Hardcover)

In The Movement for Global Mental Health: Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH). They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that "mental disorders" can clearly be identified; that they are primarily of biological origin; that the world is currently facing an "epidemic" of them; that the most appropriate treatments for them normally involve psycho-pharmaceutical drugs; and that local or indigenous therapies are of little interest or importance for treating them. The contributors argue that, on the contrary, defining "mental disorders" is difficult and culturally variable; that social and biographical factors are often important causes of them; that the "epidemic" of mental disorders may be an effect of new ways of measuring them; and that the countries of South and Southeast Asia have abundant, though non-psychiatric, resources for dealing with them. In short, they advocate a thoroughgoing mental health pluralism.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Health, Medicine, and Science in Asia
Release date:	April 2021
Editors:	William Sax • Claudia Lang
Contributors:	Jhilmil Breckenridge • Anindya Das • Stefan Ecks • Murphy Halliburton • Annette Hornbacher • Projit Mukharji • Harish Naraindas • Johannes Quack
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	346
ISBN-13:	978-9463721622
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services Promotions
LSN:	9463721622
Barcode:	9789463721622

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