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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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Corporate Authors: World Psychiatric Association
Group Author: Incayawar, Mario; Bouchard, Lise; Wintrob, Ronald; Bartocci, Goffredo
Published:
Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: World Psychiatric Association
Subjects:
Psychiatry, Transcultural
Healers
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General
Psychische Störung
Gesundheitsförderung
Volksmedizin
Heiler
Psychiatrische Versorgung
Mental Disorders > therapy
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Medicine, Traditional
Psychiatry
Religion and Psychology
Electronic books
Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470741054
Summary: 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.
ISBN: 9780470741061 (e-book)
0470741066 (e-book)
9780470741054 (e-book)
0470741058 (e-book)
1282138138
9781282138131
Index Number: RC455
CLC: R749.055
Contents: 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 /

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