anthropology – A New Vision for Mental Health

Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies

Author: Editorial 6th March 2023 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Richard Saville-Smith. The publishers say: “This book engages the problem of how, in the 21st century, we are to speak about experiences of the extraordinary/anomalous/extreme which occur on a transhistorical and transcultural basis. Critical…
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anthropology, book, books, dissociation, DSM, madness, psychiatry, psychosis, religious studies, Richard Saville-Smith, schizophrenia

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Author: Editorial 10th June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Sebastian Junger. The publishers say that it is: “… a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go…
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anthropology, books, community, Culture & Society, loneliness, Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder, PTSD, Sebastian Junger, small-scale

Are mental health disorders ever purely biological?

Author: Editorial 5th October 2020 0 Comments

“Think about the basic framework of this proposition: an animal that has evolved for millions of years, roughly 350,000 in the present form, experiences its greatest century to date in terms of population expansion, while simultaneously billions of our brains…
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anthropology, Big Think, biochemical imbalance, Derek Beres, Edward Hagen, evolutionary biology, Kristen Syme, psychiatry

Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World

Author: Editorial 25th March 2020 0 Comments

The subtitle of this book is “International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry”. It has been written by psychiatrists Pat Bracken and Philip Thomas. The publishers say: “How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the…
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anthropology, books, ethics, humanities, madness, Pat Bracken, Philip Thomas, philosophy, postmodern, psychiatry, psychosis

Video and Filmmaking as Psychotherapy: Research and Practice

Author: Editorial 21st August 2019 0 Comments

This book has been edited by Joshua Cohen, J. Lauren Johnson and Penny Orr. The publishers say: “While film and video has long been used within psychological practice, researchers and practitioners have only just begun to explore the benefits of film and…
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abuse, anthropology, art therapy, books, film-making, J. Lauren Johnson, Joshua Cohen, Penny Orr, psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, Research, trauma

Coercion in Community Mental Health Care: International Perspectives

Author: Editorial 12th July 2018 0 Comments

Coercion in Community Mental Health Care: International Perspectives, July 2016, edited by Andrew Molodynski, Jorun Rugkåsa and Tom Burns … The publishers say: “The use of coercion is one of the defining issues of mental health care. Since the earliest…
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anthropology, books, coercion, coercive psychiatry, community mental healthcare, history, law, medicine, sociology

Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia across Cultures

Author: Editorial 7th March 2018 0 Comments

This book is edited by Prof. Tania Luhrmann & Jocelyn Marrow, and published by the University of California Press (October 2016). The publishers say: “Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it…
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anthropology, books, Culture & Society, ethnography, Jocelyn Marrow, schizophrenia, social defeat, sociocultural, Tanya Luhrmann

The Culture of Our Discontent: Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 15th August 2017 1 Comment

This book has been written by Prof. Meredith Small. The publishers say: “By many estimations, the Western medical model of mental health is dangerously incomplete. If we step outside of the traditional disease model there are many new and different…
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anthropology, book, cross-cultural influences, Culture & Society, evolutionary biology, Meredith Small, nutrition, social influences