Handbook of culture, therapy, and healing
By: edited by Uwe P. Gielen, Jefferson M. Fish, Juris G. Draguns
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: Ethnopsychology; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Transcultural Psychiatry; Handbooks, manuals; Cross-cultural studies; Healing; Psychotherapy; Cultural psychiatry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Approaches to culture, healing, and psychotherapy  -- Juris G. Draguns, Uwe P. Gielen, Jefferson M. Fish; title: Culture and the origins of psychopathology  -- Horacio Fabrega; title: Role of culture in definitions, interpretations, and management of illness  -- Linda K. Sussman; title: Cross-cultural commonalties in therapy and healing : theoretical issues and psychological and sociocultural principles  -- Jefferson M. Fish; title: Biopsychosocial perspective on cross-cultural healing  -- Michele Hirsch; title: Role of culture in the treatment of culturally diverse populations -- Joseph F. Aponte.; title: Culturally oriented psychotherapy with refugees  -- Fred Bemak, Rita Chi-Ying Chung; title: Role of dance in a Navajo healing ceremonial  -- Sandra T. Francis; title: Therapeutic aspects of Salish spirit dance ceremonials  -- Wolfgang G. Jilek; title: Traditional healers in Mexico : the effectiveness of spiritual practices  -- Kaja Finkler; title: Women as healers : a "gendered" exploration in Puerto Rico and elsewhere  -- Joan D. Koss-Chioino; title: Indigenous Chinese healing : theories and methods -- Ting Lei, Cecilia Askeroth, Ching-Tse Lee.; title: Healing the wounds : following protracted conflict in Angola : a community-based approach to assisting war-affected children  -- Michael G. Wessells, Carlinda Monteiro; title: Native healing in Arab-Islamic societies  -- Ihsan Al-Isssa, Abdulla Al-Subaie; title: From speculation through description toward investigation : a prospective glimpse at cultural research in psychotherapy -- Juris G. Draguns.; title: Indigenous Chinese healing : a criteria-based meta-analysis of outcomes research  -- Ting Lei [et al.]; title: Psychoanalysis and Buddhism  -- Jeffrey B. Rubin; title: Japanese forms of psychotherapy : Naikan therapy and Morita theapy  -- Junko Tanaka-Matsumi; title: Indian conceptions of mental health, healing, and the individual  -- Rashmi Jaipal; title: Western psychotherapy and the Yoruba : problems of insight and nondirective technique -- Raymond Prince.