Author : Laurence J. Kirmayer
Release : 2015-07-29
Genre : Psychology
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Re-Visioning Psychiatry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re-Visioning Psychiatry write by Laurence J. Kirmayer. This book was released on 2015-07-29. Re-Visioning Psychiatry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Re-Visioning Psychiatry explores new theories and models from cultural psychiatry and psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and anthropology that clarify how mental health problems emerge in specific contexts and points toward future integration of these perspectives. Taken together, the contributions point to the need for fundamental shifts in psychiatric theory and practice: • Restoring phenomenology to its rightful place in research and practice • Advancing the social and cultural neuroscience of brain-person-environment systems over time and across social contexts • Understanding how self-awareness, interpersonal interactions, and larger social processes give rise to vicious circles that constitute mental health problems • Locating efforts to help and heal within the local and global social, economic, and political contexts that influence how we frame problems and imagine solutions. In advancing ecosystemic models of mental disorders, contributors challenge reductionistic models and culture-bound perspectives and highlight possibilities for a more transdisciplinary, integrated approach to research, mental health policy, and clinical practice.