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Cultural perspectives on mental wellbeing : spiritual Interpretations of symptoms in medical practice / Dr Natalie Tobert ; foreword by Dr Michael Cornwall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tobert, Natalie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transcultural medical care.
- Mental health--Cross-cultural studies.
- Mental health.
- Mental illness--Cross-cultural studies.
- Mental illness.
- Mental Health--trends.
- Mental Health Services--ethics.
- Culture.
- Religion.
- Consensus.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mental Health--trends.
- Mental Health Services--ethics.
- Culture.
- Religion.
- Consensus.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- 263 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017.
- Summary:
- Today, while in some cultures spiritual care is viewed as an important and mainstream part of mental healthcare, Western psychiatry has relied more heavily on biological diagnoses and medication. With globalization and migration bringing diverse cultural angles on these issues into ever closer contact, Dr Natalie Tobert envisages a new, evolved framework for understanding mental illnesses. Unearthing a global social history of mental wellbeing and brimming with new possibilities, this book gathers a full scope of cultural perspectives to reveal how combinations of methods may achieve more person-centred, effective mental healthcare for each modern individual. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Consensual reality, spirituality and religion
- Culture, nationality and ethnicity
- Cultural beliefs about health and illness
- The human body
- Beliefs about conception and human identity
- Women's bodies and human behaviour
- Cultural U-turns and changing responses to consensus
- Cultural knowledge on death and dying
- Cultural beliefs about survival beyond death
- Anomalous experiences : religious and spiritual experiences
- Anomalous experiences : NDE, OBE, ELE
- Anomalous experiences : cultural interpretations of mental health
- Anomalous experiences : popular uprising and spiritual awakening
- Anomalous experiences : deliberate shifts in consciousness
- Why address cultural understandings and academic fixity?
- Acknowledging dissonance as a way forward
- Towards positive change.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781785920844
- 1785920847
- OCLC:
- 944306831
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