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Informationen zum Autor Mario Incayawar, recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2006, is Director of 'Runajambi' - Institute for the Study of Quichua Culture and Health.Ron Wintrob is President of the WPA Section on Transcultural Psychiatry. Klappentext This exceptional book responds to the intense current interest in defining and understanding the contribution of traditional medical knowledge and the intervention techniques of traditional healers to national mental health services around the world.* First book on traditional healing and transcultural psychiatryDelineates the knowledge and clinical skills of traditional healers from diverse cultural areas around the world* Describes the clinical and social roles of traditional healers in their communities and the challenges of constructing national mental health programs that include traditional knowledge and healing techniques* Assesses issues on efficacy and safety of traditional healers' interventions* Includes contributions from leading scholars in this field from South Africa, India, New Zealand, Andorra, Canada, USA, Italy, and the Quichua and Sioux Lakota Nations of South and North America* Theme of culture versus science: The psychiatrists discuss the effects of local culture upon mental health and consider the impact, benefit and incorporation of traditional healing as a tool for the clinical psychiatrist.* Easy to use with case studies and vignettes throughout and a glossary to explain any technical termsPsychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of a wide array of mental health trainees, researchers and professionals interested in cultural psychiatry in general and the role of traditional healers around the world. Zusammenfassung This exceptional book responds to the intense current interest in defining and understanding the contribution of traditional medical knowledge and the intervention techniques of traditional healers to national mental health services around the world.* First book on traditional healing and transcultural psychiatryDelineates the knowledge and clinical skills of traditional healers from diverse cultural areas around the world* Describes the clinical and social roles of traditional healers in their communities and the challenges of constructing national mental health programs that include traditional knowledge and healing techniques* Assesses issues on efficacy and safety of traditional healers' interventions* Includes contributions from leading scholars in this field from South Africa, India, New Zealand, Andorra, Canada, USA, Italy, and the Quichua and Sioux Lakota Nations of South and North America* Theme of culture versus science: The psychiatrists discuss the effects of local culture upon mental health and consider the impact, benefit and incorporation of traditional healing as a tool for the clinical psychiatrist.* Easy to use with case studies and vignettes throughout and a glossary to explain any technical termsPsychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of a wide array of mental health trainees, researchers and professionals interested in cultural psychiatry in general and the role of traditional healers around the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Overview: Looking Toward the Future of Shared Knowledge and Healing Practices (Ronald Wintrob).2. Legitimacy and contextual issues in traditional Lakota Sioux healing (Jeffrey A. Henderson).3. Doctor-patient relationship in psychiatry: traditional approaches in India versus Western approaches (Vijoy K. Varma and Nitin Gupta).4 South American indigenous knowledge of psychotropics (Sioui Maldonado Bouchard).5. Psychiatric case identification skills of Yachactaita (Quichua healers of the Andes) (Mario Incayawar, Former William F. and Former Henry R.).6. A Western psy...
