Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry

includes index and biblioraphy

Section 1 : Theoretical background 1 Cultural psychiatry in historical perspective ......1 2 Anthropology and psychiatry: A contemporary convergence for global mental health .......18 3 Suicide, violence and culture ......35 4 Psychology and cultural psychiatry .....44 5 Spirituality and cultural psychiatry ......59 6 Lifestly medicine in psychiatry .....70 7 Globalization and mental health .....78 8 Social media .....85 9 Telepsychiatry: cultural considerations .....93 10 Ethnic inequalities and cultural-capability framework in mental healthcare .......104 Section 2: Culture and mental health 11 Psychopathology and the role of culture: An overview ....119 12 Developmental aspects of cultural psychiatry ......132 13 Explanatory models in psychiatry .....143 14 Culture-bound syndromes: Past, current status and future .....158 15 Psychiatric epidemiology and its contributions to cultural psychiatry .....174 16 Accultration and identity .....185 17 Cultural consonance .....194 Section 3: Culture and mental disorders 18 Neurotic disorders: Anxiety and fear related dissociative and bodily disorders ......205 19 Schizophrenia and related psychoses .....215 20 Affective disorders coloured by culture: Why the pigment of depression is more than skin deep ....232 21 Substance misuse ....244 22 Culture and mental disorders: Suicidal behaviour .....256 23 Personality disorders and culture .....275 24 Culture and obsessive-compulsive disorder ......292 25 Culture and eating disorders .....304 26 Child and adolescent psychiatric disorders .....317 27 Culture and schizophrenia ......329 28 Disorders of ageing across cultures .....338 Section 4: Theoretical aspects of management 29 Traumascape: An ecological-cultural-historical model for extreme stress ....363 30 Sexual dyfunstion across cultures .......393 31 Therapist-patient relationships and culture .....408 32 Developing effective mental health services for multicultural societies ......417 33 Cross-cultural psychopharmacotherapy .....432 34 Psychotherapy across cultures .....442 35 Psychological interventions ....458 36 Spiritual aspects of management .....472 37 Cultural aspects of suicide .....482 Section 5: Management with special groups 38 Intellectual disabilities across cultures ......493 39 Child psychiatry across cultures .....503 40 Management of sexual dyfunction across cultures ......516 41 Transgenderism: Cross-cultural perspectives ......534 42 Refugee mental helath: A problem for the world to solve .....543 43 Working with elderly persons across cultures .......552 44 Cultural overlays in consultation-liaison psychiatry ......570 Section 6: Cultural research and training 45 Psychiatric and medical conditions: Cultural signatures and evolutionary framework ......581 46 Globalization, social stressors and psychiatry .....607 47 Cultural psychiatry: Past, present and future .....618