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The Movement for Global Mental Health - Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
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The Movement for Global Mental Health - Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
Series: Health, Medicine, and Science in Asia
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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.
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