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Social and cultural psychiatry experience from the Caribbean region / Hari D. Maharajh and Joav Merrick, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Health and human development series.
- Health and human development
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural psychiatry--Caribbean Area.
- Cultural psychiatry.
- Social psychiatry--Caribbean Area.
- Social psychiatry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This new book captures the history, lifestyles and beliefs of Caribbean people relating them without impunity to the psychology of their emotion, thought and behaviour. This book studies research on the background of historical perspectives, definitions, dimensions and a Caribbean Diaspora, the interpretation of behaviours and mental disorders with contributions from witchcraft, priestcraft and science, as well as the challenge of the local interpretation of mental illness.
- Contents:
- section 1. Introduction
- section 2. Medicine and the Caribbean region
- section 3. Culture, behavior and mental illness
- section 4. Suicidal behavior and suicide
- section 5. Alcohol and substance abuse
- section 6. General and specialty psychiatry
- section 7. Reflections
- section 8. Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61728-088-7
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