Mental Health Worldwide [electronic resource] : Culture, Globalization and Development /
Fernando, Suman,author.
Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. Rooted in detailed analysis of the problems this causes, the book proposes new suggestions for advancing the field of mental health and wellbeing in a way that is ethical, sustainable and culturally sensitive.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Some points about language; Outline of the book; Part I: Cultural History of Madness, Psychiatry and Mental Health; 1 Culture and Globalization in Relation to Mental Health; Nature of culture; Globalization; Conclusions; 2 Understanding Madness, Mental Illness and Mental Health; Western tradition; Medicalization of madness; Biologization of the mind; West/non-West differences; Illness experience; Concepts of health and illness; Medical approach; Cause of ill-health; Explanatory models; Conclusions
3 Medicalization of Human Problems in the WestEurope; North America; Racist tradition of psychiatry; Lead up to bio-medical psychiatry; Conclusions; Part II What Happened in the Majority World; 4 Mental Health and Mental Illness in Non-Western Countries; The Third World and its underdevelopment; Living standards in East and West; The story of Africa and South America; Problems of international research; Studies of healing; Anecdotal/incidental evidence; Pre-colonial Third World; Conclusions; 5 Colonial Psychiatry; Indian subcontinent; Impact on local people; French North Africa
Impact on people of the MaghrebBritish Africa; Impact on Africans; Contributions to psychiatric knowledge; Conclusions; Part III: Psychiatry and Mental Health after the Second World War: Exporting Psychiatry to the Global South; 6 Medication Revolution and Emerging Discontents; Changes from the 1960s onwards; Drift into drug-based psychiatry; Collusion between psychiatry and pharma; Critiques of bio-medical (western) psychiatry; Transcultural critiques; Recent critiques in the USA; Conclusions; 7 Ethnic Problems in the West and Neo-Imperialism Abroad
Problems of racism and the illness model of psychiatryPsychiatry penetrating the Global South; Unexpected results of WHO studies; 1970s Onwards; Conclusions; 8 International Politics of Mental Health and Psychiatry; Sociopolitical context of health and illness; Social determinants of health; Spreading psychiatry through political pressures; Policy shifts at WHO; Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH); Opposition to MGMH; Promoting diagnoses; Conclusions; Part IV: Developing Mental Health Services; 9 Modernizing Mental Health Services in the Global North; What can be changed?; Inequalities
LegislationService user involvement; Team work, training and scope of treatment; Pharmaceutical industry; Recovery and well-being; Recovery and the recovery approach; Well-being; Conclusions; 10 Mental Health and Well-Being in the Global South; Ground realities; Ground rules; Local knowledge; Human rights; Cultural consistency, ethical and sustainable; Community based; Avoid mistakes in the West; Summary; North-South collaboration; Community development; Social determinants of health; Regulation of systems; Conclusions; 11 Afterthoughts: Power, Diagnosis and the Majority World; Psychiatry
Global power and voices of the poor
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. Rooted in detailed analysis of the problems this causes, the book proposes new suggestions for advancing the field of mental health and wellbeing in a way that is ethical, sustainable and culturally sensitive.
Social medicine.
Psychiatry.
Clinical psychology.
Psychology, Pathological.
Economic development.
Globalization.
Medical Sociology.
Psychiatry.
Clinical Psychology.
Psychopathology.
Development Studies.
Globalization.