Towards an Anthropology of Psychology : Ethnographic Studies of Psychological Healthcare / Edited by Mikkel Kenni Bruun and Rebecca Hutten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruun, Mikkel Kenni, editor.

Hutten, Rebecca, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnopsychology.

Clinical health psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Ethnographic Studies of Psychological Healthcare

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Challenging contemporary enthusiasm for interdisciplinarity, the book calls for rethinking 'psychology' as an anthropological inquiry. It provides ethnographic studies of talking therapies, subjects, institutions, professionals and psychological persuasions, suggesting how anthropology can improve psychological healthcare.

Contents:

Mixing treatment modalities: An ethnography of mental healthcare bricolage in Canada / Dina Bork

Treating patients 'who don't speak': The challenge of treating children with eating disorders in a residential facility in Italy / Giulia Sciolli

More likely psychological? Exploring mental troubles and qsychology in Ouagadougou / Annigje van Dijk

When the counsellors give: Material support and therapeutic agency in state-based psychological counselling services in Sri Lanka / Nadia Augustyniak

In (the) practice: Pioneering psychotherapy in Uganda / Julia Vorhölter

Throwing out the psyche: Scientific persuasions in British psychotherapy / Mikkel Kenni Bruun

Encoding wellness: On cultures of risk when building digital mental wellbeing apps / Jennifer Cearns.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-83695-157-4

1-83695-158-2