Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health

Cambridge University Press, 7/29/2015
EAN 9781107032200, ISBN10: 1107032202

Hardcover, 732 pages, 23.5 x 15.9 x 4 cm
Language: English

Re-Visioning Psychiatry explores new theories and models from cultural psychiatry and psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and anthropology that clarify how mental health problems emerge in specific contexts and points toward future integration of these perspectives. Taken together, the contributions point to the need for fundamental shifts in psychiatric theory and practice: • Restoring phenomenology to its rightful place in research and practice • Advancing the social and cultural neuroscience of brain-person-environment systems over time and across social contexts • Understanding how self-awareness, interpersonal interactions, and larger social processes give rise to vicious circles that constitute mental health problems • Locating efforts to help and heal within the local and global social, economic, and political contexts that influence how we frame problems and imagine solutions. In advancing ecosystemic models of mental disorders, contributors challenge reductionistic models and culture-bound perspectives and highlight possibilities for a more transdisciplinary, integrated approach to research, mental health policy, and clinical practice.

1. Introduction Laurence J. Kirmayer, Robert Lemelson and Constance A. Cummings
Part I. Restoring Phenomenology to Psychiatry
2. Toward a new epistemology of psychiatry German E. Berrios and Ivana S. Marková
3. Phenomenology and the interpretation of psychopathological experience Josef Parnas and Shaun Gallagher
4. How the self is altered in psychiatric disorders
a neurophenomenal approach Georg Northoff
5. Cultural phenomenology and psychiatric illness Thomas J. Csordas
6. Empathy and alterity in psychiatry Laurence J. Kirmayer
7. Reflections
the community life of objects - beyond the academic clinic Nev Jones
Part II. Biosocial Mechanisms in Mental Health and Illness
8. Dimensional and categorical approaches to mental illness
let biology decide Robert M. Bilder
9. Early-life adversity and epigenetic changes
implications for understanding suicide Benoit Labonté, Adel Farah and Gustavo Turecki
10. Understanding the neural circuitry of emotion regulation
white matter tract abnormalities and psychiatric disorder Cecile D. Ladouceur, Amelia Versace and Mary L. Phillips
11. Paying attention to a field in crisis
psychiatry, neuroscience, and functional systems of the brain Amir Raz and Ethan Macdonald
12. Reflections
hearing voices - how social context shapes psychiatric symptoms Tanya M. Luhrmann
Part III. Cultural Contexts of Psychopathology
13. Understanding the social etiology of psychosis Kwame McKenzie and Jai Shah
14. Toward a cultural neuroscience of anxiety disorders
the multiplex model Devon E. Hinton and Naomi M. Simon
15. From the brain disease model to ecologies of addiction Eugene Raikhel
16. Cultural clinical psychology
from cultural scripts to contextualized treatments Andrew G. Ryder and Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton
17. Psychiatric classification beyond the DSM
an interdisciplinary approach Roberto Lewis-Fernández and Neil Krishan Aggarwal
18. Reflections
the virtues of cultural sameness - the case of delusion Ian Gold
Part IV. Psychiatric Practice in Global Context
19. Afflictions
psychopathology and recovery in cultural context Robert Lemelson and Annie Tucker
20. Eating pathology in Fiji
phenomenologic diversity, visibility, and vulnerability Anne E. Becker and Jennifer J. Thomas
21. Solving global mental health as a delivery problem
toward a critical epistemology of the solution Kalman Applbaum
22. Global mental health praxis
perspectives from cultural psychiatry on research and intervention Brandon A. Kohrt and James L. Griffith
23. Reflections
social inequalities and mental health outcomes - toward a new architecture for global mental health Duncan Pedersen
24. Conclusion
re-visioning psychiatry - toward an ecology of mind in health and illness Laurence J. Kirmayer.