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Anthropological Approaches to Psychological Medicine: Crossing Bridges

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Written predominantly for those working in the mental health services, this book aims to extend the theory and practice of psychiatry. The chapters explore the culture of psychiatry as well as seeking to reaffirm the importance of anthropology for understanding psychiatric practice and psychological disorders in both socio-historical and individual contexts. The development and use of psychiatric diagnostic categories, the nature of expressed emotion within cross-cultural contexts and the religious context of perceptions of pathological behaviour are all refracted through an anthropological perspective. The second part of this book focuses clinical applications.
Introduction - social anthropology and social psychiatry - new wine in old wineskins, Vieda Skultans and John Cox. Part 1 Theoretical approaches: psychiatry's culture, Roland Littlewood; remembering and forgetting - anthropology and psychiatry - a changing relationship, Vieda Skultans; identity affect and multiple selves, John Campbell; anthropology and psychiatry -creating the ''other'', Els Van Dongren; the concept of somatization in psychiatry, Allan Young and Laurence Kirmayer; cultural origins of Western depression, Sushrat Jadav; Cambodian concepts of perinatal mental disorder, Maurice Eisenbruch. Part 2 Clinical approaches: anthropological issues in public health, Jane Jackson; changing concept of schizophrenia in psychiatric education, Bernard Ineichen; religious issues for psychiatrists, Simon Dein; establishing cultural competence for mental health professionals, Maureen Fitzgerald; structures of medical thought - professional dispositions in practice, Simon Sinclair; theoretical and clinical perspectives on stigma, Dinesh Bhugra and Gerard Hutchinson; lessons from anthropology, Maurice Lipsedge.
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