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Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry

The textbook offers comprehensive understanding of the impact of cultural factors and differences on mental illness and its treatment.

Dinesh Bhugra (Edited by), Kamaldeep Bhui (Edited by)

9781316628508, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 April 2018

680 pages, 16 b/w illus.
24.5 x 18.7 x 3 cm, 1.43 kg

Cultural psychiatry deals with the impact of culture on causation, perpetuation and treatment of patients suffering with mental illness. The role of culture in mental illness is increasingly being recognised, and the misconceptions that can occur as a result of cultural differences can lead to misdiagnoses, under or over-diagnosis. This second edition of the Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry has been completely updated with additional new chapters on globalisation and mental health, social media and tele-psychiatry. Written by world-leading experts in the field, this new edition provides a framework for the provision of mental health care in an increasingly globalised world. The first edition of the Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry was commended in the BMA Book Awards in 2008 and was the recipient of the 2012 Creative Scholarship Award from the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture.

Part I. Theoretical Background: 1. Cultural psychiatry in historical perspective
2. Anthropology and psychiatry: a contemporary convergence for global mental health
3. Suicide, violence and culture
4. Psychology and cultural psychiatry
5. Spirituality and cultural psychiatry
6. Lifestyle medicine in psychiatry
7. Globalisation
8. Social media
9. Telepsychiatry
10. Ethnic inequalities and cultural capability framework in mental healthcare
Part II. Culture and Mental Health: 11. Psychopathology and the role of culture: an overview
12. Developmental aspects of cultural psychiatry
13. Explanatory models in psychiatry
14. Culture-bound syndromes: past, current status and future
15. Psychiatric epidemiology and its contributions to cultural psychiatry
16. Acculturation and identity
17. Cultural consonance
Part III. Culture and Mental Disorders: 18. Neurotic disorders: anxiety and fear related, dissociative and bodily distress disorders
19. Schizophrenia and related psychoses
20. Affective disorders: coloured by culture – why the pigment of depression is more than skin deep
21. Substance misuse
22. Culture and mental disorders: suicidal behaviour
23. Personality disorders and culture
24. Culture and obsessive-compulsive disorder
25. Culture and eating disorders
26. Childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders
27. Culture and schizophrenia
28. Disorders of ageing across culture
Part IV. Theoretical Aspects of Management: 29. Traumascape: an ecological-cultural-historical model for extreme stress
30. Sexual dysfunction across cultures
31. Therapist-patient interactions and expectations
32. Developing effective mental health services for multi-cultural societies
33. Cross-cultural psychopharmarcotherapy
34. Psychotherapy across cultures
35. Psychological interventions
36. Spiritual aspects of management
37. Cultural aspects of suicide
Part V. Management with Special Groups: 38. Intellectual disabilities across cultures
39. Child psychiatry across cultures
40. Management of sexual dysfunction
41. Transgenderism: cross cultural perspectives
42. Refugee mental health: a wicked problem for the world to solve
43. Working with elderly persons across cultures
44. Working in liaison psychiatry
Part VI. Cultural Research and Training: 45. Psychiatric conditions embody distinct evolutionary and cultural signatures when compared with general medical conditions
46. Globalization, social stressors and psychiatry
47. Cultural psychiatry: past, present and future.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], Psychiatry [MMH]

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