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"This is the third, significantly expanded and revised, edition of this seminal text. Incorporating additional contemporary topics, including mental health of refugees, trauma and psychosocial approaches, this text offers an illuminating account of mental health and mental disorder seen cross-culturally and internationally"--Provided by publisher.

Mental health, race and culture / Suman Fernando.

Experimental and clinical psychiatry

Psychiatry around the globe : a transcultural view / Julian Leff.

Schizophrenia : an international follow-up study / World Health Organization.

Children in turmoil, tomorrow's parent = les enfants de la tourmente seront parents demain : 10th International Congress, 25-30 July 1982, Dublin, Ireland abstracts.

"Theories and traditions that we inherit and live with determine our current understanding of mental health. African, Asian and native American traditions promote ways of thinking that are different from those in the West dominated by Western psychiatry Informed throughout by a deep awareness of both racial and cultural issues, the author describes and analyses mental health theory, practice, tradition and innovation around the globe in the context of a diversity of world-views and of problems arising from racism"--back cover.

Issues in mental health

Mental health, race and culture / Suman J.M. Fernando.

Hári Sewell enables front line practitioners to understand why it is important to consider the specific needs of people from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds in mental health settings.

208 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Working with ethnicity, race and culture in mental health : a handbook for practitioners / Hári Sewell.

Psychiatry, the state of the art

History of psychiatry, national schools, education, and transcultural psychiatry / edited by P. Pichot [and others].

Culture, illness, and healing

The culture-bound syndromes : folk illnesses of psychiatric and anthropological interest / edited by Ronald C. Simons and Charles C. Hughes.

WHO offset publication

x, 427 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm.

Report of the international pilot study of schizophrenia. Volume 1, Results of the initial evaluation phase / World Health Organization.

"Jon Ronson meets David Grann in this fascinating, wildly entertaining adventure and travel story about how culture can make us go totally insane The Geography of Madness is an investigation of "culture-bound" syndromes, which are far stranger than they sound. Why is it, for example, that some men believe, against all reason, that vandals stole their penises, even though they're in good physical shape? In The Geography of Madness, acclaimed magazine writer Frank Bures travels around the world to trace culture-bound syndromes to their sources--and in the process, tells a remarkable story about the strange things all of us believe"--

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Mental health, race and culture / Suman Fernando.

Psychiatry around the globe : a transcultural view / Julian Leff.

Schizophrenia : an international follow-up study / World Health Organization.

Children in turmoil, tomorrow's parent = les enfants de la tourmente seront parents demain : 10th International Congress, 25-30 July 1982, Dublin, Ireland abstracts.

Mental health, race and culture / Suman J.M. Fernando.

Working with ethnicity, race and culture in mental health : a handbook for practitioners / Hári Sewell.

History of psychiatry, national schools, education, and transcultural psychiatry / edited by P. Pichot [and others].

The culture-bound syndromes : folk illnesses of psychiatric and anthropological interest / edited by Ronald C. Simons and Charles C. Hughes.

Report of the international pilot study of schizophrenia. Volume 1, Results of the initial evaluation phase / World Health Organization.

The geography of madness : penis thieves, voodoo death, and the search for the meaning of the world's strangest syndromes / Frank Bures.

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Mental health, race and culture / Suman Fernando.

Psychiatry around the globe : a transcultural view / Julian Leff.

Schizophrenia : an international follow-up study / World Health Organization.

Children in turmoil, tomorrow's parent = les enfants de la tourmente seront parents demain : 10th International Congress, 25-30 July 1982, Dublin, Ireland abstracts.

Mental health, race and culture / Suman J.M. Fernando.

Working with ethnicity, race and culture in mental health : a handbook for practitioners / Hári Sewell.

History of psychiatry, national schools, education, and transcultural psychiatry / edited by P. Pichot [and others].

The culture-bound syndromes : folk illnesses of psychiatric and anthropological interest / edited by Ronald C. Simons and Charles C. Hughes.

Report of the international pilot study of schizophrenia. Volume 1, Results of the initial evaluation phase / World Health Organization.

The geography of madness : penis thieves, voodoo death, and the search for the meaning of the world's strangest syndromes / Frank Bures.

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