Description: Decolonizing Global Mental Health : The Psychiatrization of the Majority World, Paperback by Mills, China, ISBN 1848721609, ISBN-13 9781848721609, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Decolonizing Global Mental Health offers a critical postcolonial reading of this newly emerging arena, with a particular focus on psychology's and psychiatry's encounters with, and responses to, distress or 'mental illness' in low-income countries. The World Health Organisation and the Movement for Global Mental Health currently push for the 'scale-up' of psychiatric and psychological interventions on to low-income countries, modelled on those from high-income countries. However critiques of psychiatricand psychological services from service users, the survivor movement and professionals, often remain invisible within 'Global Mental Health' literature. This book argues that it is imperative to explore how this alternative 'evidence base' might be mobilized to fruitfully interrogate calls to 'scale up' psychiatric and psychological services in the majority world. Th seeks to de-familiarize current 'Western' conceptions of psychology and psychiatry using postcolonial theory, and seeks to bring intofocus a series of questions and problematizations. As such it is ideal reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers in the fields of critical psychology and psychiatry, social and health psychology, cultural studies, publichealth and social work"--
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Book Title: Decolonizing Global Mental Health : The Psychiatrization of the M
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Decolonizing Global Mental Health : the Psychiatrisation of the Majority World
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Public Health, Mental Health, Psychiatry / General, Social Psychology
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Weight: 8.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: China Mills
Subject Area: Psychology, Medical
Item Length: 8.4 in
Series: concepts for Critical Psychology Ser.
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
