"In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. In the study of mental activity, can the effects of evolution and history be teased apart? Evolutionary psychologi…
Questioning how the human mind influences the content and organisation of culture, these essays pitches the arguments for nativism (proposed by evolutionary psychologists) against ethnographic perspectives.
"Cultural Anxieties is a compelling ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to…
"Cultural Anxieties is a compelling ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to…
"Cultural Anxieties is a compelling ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to…
"Cultural Anxieties is a compelling ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to…
"A young female client presents with anorexia nervosa and believes that her problem has its roots in magic; parents are helpless in the face of their son's substance abuse issues; an interracial couple cannot agree on how to discipline their children. How would you effectively h…
Indigenous Counseling is based in universal principals/truths that promote a way to think about how to live in the world and with one another that extends beyond the scope of Western European thought. Individual health and wellness is intricately interwoven into the relationship…
'Elements of Culture and Mental Health' outlines a series of key questions, together with problems and potential solutions. These encourage the reader to think through the issues, while also giving practical advice in relation to their day-to-day clinical practice.
"This book is relevant to all those working with refugees and displaced persons across the mental health disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, and social work, as well as to policy makers and students in these areas."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Although forced migration is not new in human history it has become, in our time, one of the world's major problems. In the last few decades, armed conflict and political unrest have created vast numbers of asylum seekers, refugees and displaced persons. This has led, in turn to…
"This book is relevant to all those working with refugees and displaced persons across the mental health disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, and social work, as well as to policy makers and students in these areas."--Jacket.
