"With fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility, Jenkins explores the lived experience of psychosis, trauma, and depression among people of diverse cultural orientations, eloquently showing how mental illness engages fundamental human processes of self, desire, gender, identity, attac…
"In Healing Narratives, Gay Wilentz explores the relationship between culture and health. In close reading of works by five women writers - Toni Cade Bambara, Erna Broder, Leslie Marmon Silko, Keri Hulme, and Jo Sinclair - she traces the narrative and structural similarities of …
This diverse collection of essays examines important issues related to mental health among Pacific Islanders through the topics of identity, spirituality, the unconscious, mental trauma, and healing. Contributors: Emeline Afeaki-Mafile'o, Margaret Nelson Agee, Siautu Alefaio, A.…
Pacific Identities 1. Supporting the Wellbeing of Pasifika Youth / Siautu Alefaio 2. Affirming Works: A Collective Model of Pasifika Mentoring / Emeline Afeaki-Mafile'o 3. Canoe Noses and Coconut Feet: Reading the Samoan Male Body / Tavita T. Maliko 4. Jonah, Arnold, and Me: Rea…
This diverse collection of essays examines important issues related to mental health among Pacific Islanders through the topics of identity, spirituality, the unconscious, mental trauma, and healing. Contributors: Emeline Afeaki-Mafile'o, Margaret Nelson Agee, Siautu Alefaio, A.…
Based on over 250 psychiatric case files, this book traces the lives of Kenya's 'white insane' to focus not on the 'great white hunters' and heroic pioneer farmers, but on those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, the book raises important ne…
During the 1950s, US Army medical officers reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress exhibited a theatrical form of pseudo-epilepsy. This work examines the so-called Puerto Rican Syndrome and its social and cultural implications for the growing Hispanic population in the …
During the 1950s, US Army medical officers reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress exhibited a theatrical form of pseudo-epilepsy. This work examines the so-called Puerto Rican Syndrome and its social and cultural implications for the growing Hispanic population in the …
This open access book offers essential information on values-based practice (VBP): the clinical skills involved, teamwork and person-centered care, links between values and evidence, and the importance of partnerships in shared decision-making. Different cultures have different …
This book focuses on various aspects of gender and mental health. Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives and scholarship, it summarizes the complex intertwining of illness and culture in the context of the rising frequency of mental disorders. The book is divided into three s…
"This book addresses the urgent need for knowledge and advice for culturally relevant practice in the context of forensic psychiatry. With forensic mental health systems increasingly encountering persons of diverse ethnic cultural backgrounds, clinicians are faced with complex q…
