Cultural Psychiatry: Euro-International Perspectives

Abstract

How does culture influence mental health? Cultural psychiatry has been the portal through which advances in the social sciences have found their way into medical practice and health policy. Diverse issues and activities in research and practice of cultural and transcultural psychiatry are collected in this timely volume. The contributions can be summarized in three main topics: interdisciplinary settings for practice and research; migration, trauma and the context of migrant mental health, and cultural lessons for treatment. This book provides essential reading for health professionals and social scientists who would like to understand how culture influences mental health as well as the treatment and prevention of mental illness. It will be of special interest to medical anthropologists concerned with the relationship between culture theory and psychiatry, mental health care providers and policy makers in an international environment. Euro-International Perspectives / M.G. Weiss and A.T. Yilmaz -- Culture and Psychiatry / H.-R. Wicker -- Psychiatric Diagnosis and Illness Experience / M.G. Weiss -- Culture-Bound Syndromes / R. Raguram -- Cross-Cultural Applicability Research Methods in Addictions, Mental Health and Disabilities / T.B. Ustun, S. Chatterji and R.T. Trotter II / [and others] -- Neurasthenia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Lessons from Cross-Cultural Study / K.-M. Lin, M. Lin and Y. Zheng -- Caribbean Immigration to Britain: Mental Health of the Migrants and Their British-Born Families / R. Littlewood -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Culture / C. Frey -- Low Back Pain and Foreign Workers: Does Culture Play an Important Role? / P. Keel -- Cultural Formulation: Clinical Case Study / A.T. Yilmaz and M.G. Weiss -- Community Psychiatry and Clinical Anthropology / S. Jadhav -- Betwixt and Between: The Identity Problems of Second-Generation Immigrant Children / D. Burgin -- Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapuetic Interventions in a Crisis / A.T. Yilmaz -- Transcultural Phenomena in Groups and Society / R. Battegay.