By Uwe P. Gielen
Emotional, in addition to actual misery, is a background from our hominid ancestors; it's been skilled by way of each staff of humans considering our emergence as a species. and each identified tradition has built structures of conceptualization and intervention for addressing it.
The editors have introduced jointly major psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, and others to contemplate the interplay of psychosocial, organic, and cultural variables as they impression the review of well-being and affliction and the process remedy. the amount comprises largely conceived theoretical and survey chapters; particular descriptions of particular therapeutic traditions in Asia, the Americas, Africa, and the Arab global.
The Handbook of tradition, remedy, and Healing is a special source, containing information regarding Western treatments practiced in non-Western cultures, non-Western treatments practiced either of their personal context and within the West.
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Barriers to effective cross-cultural counseling. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 24, 420-429. Torrey, E. F. (1972). The mind game: Witchdoctors and psychiatrists. New York: Emerson Hall. This page intentionally left blank I Culture, Therapy, and Healing: Basic Issues This page intentionally left blank 2 Culture and the Origins of Psychopathology Horacio Fabrega, Jr. University of Pittsburgh This chapter explores intellectual territories in the social and biological sciences that are important to cross in order to reach an optimal, culturally appropriate, and theoretically compelling understanding of mental illness that can be represented in a system of diagnosis, classification, and healing (Fabrega, 2002).
Specific terms include, for example, anxiety, depression, dementia, mania, psychosis, and personality disorders. Many types of conditions that encompass problems of personal experience and behavior are referred to collectively as psychopathology. Other familiar, general terms are mental illness, social maladjustment, and emotional health problems. Looking beyond contemporary diagnoses, we encounter terms such as insanity, madness, craziness, and the like, often used by social historians, that describe particular types of psychopathology viewed in a social context.
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