Psychiatrist and traditional healers unwitting partners in global mental health /
This exceptional book responds to the intense current interest in defining and understanding the contribution of traditional medical knowledge and the intervention techniques of traditional healers to national mental health services around the world.:.; A unique resource n traditional healing and tr...
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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World Psychiatric Association
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470741054 |
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This exceptional book responds to the intense current interest in defining and understanding the contribution of traditional medical knowledge and the intervention techniques of traditional healers to national mental health services around the world.:.; A unique resource n traditional healing and transcultural psychiatry.; Delineates the knowledge and clinical skills of traditional healers from diverse cultural areas around the world.; Describes the clinical and social roles of traditional healers in their communities and the challenges of constructing national mental health programs that in |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xx, 269 pages). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780470741061 (e-book) 0470741066 (e-book) 9780470741054 (e-book) 0470741058 (e-book) 1282138138 9781282138131 |
Index Number: | RC455 |
CLC: | R749.055 |
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Overview : looking toward the future of shared knowledge and healing practices / Legitimacy and contextual issues in traditional Lakota Sioux healing / Doctor-patient relationship in psychiatry : traditional approaches in India versus Western approaches -- Vijoy K. Varma and Nitin Gupta -- South American indigenous knowledge of psychotropics / Psychiatric case identification skills of Yachactaita (Quichua healers of the Andes) / A Western psychiatrist among the Shuar people of Ecuador / |