Healing the mind through the power of story
Subtitle: the promise of narrative psychiatry
By: Lewis Mehl-Madrona.
Publisher: Bear & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rochester, Vt
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781591430957
Subjects: Narrative therapy; Narration; Psychotherapy -- methods; Indians, North American
Description: "Psychiatry that recognizes the essential role of community in creating a new story of mental health"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conventional mental health today; title: Good stories and mental health; title: How do we learn to be who we are?; title: How do we learn to feel what we feel?; title: The meaning of pain and depression; title: Story and the shaping of identity; title: How culture changes biology and genetics; title: How culture is context and context shapes behavior; title: Stories from science : change is always possible; title: The power of ceremony; title: How communities create change; title: To story or not to story; title: Indigenous models for the practice of psychiatry and mental health; title: Narratives for anxiety and depression; title: Narratives and bipolar disorder; title: Narrative approaches to psychosis.