As described in a recent Somatosphere post, there has been much debate among cultural psychiatrists and social scientists over the movement for “global mental health.” The latest issue of Transcultural Psychiatry helps to advance this discussion with a special section on “Communities and Global Mental Health.” As guest editors Catherine Campbell and Rochelle Burgess explain, the papers in this …
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In the Journals – August 2012
Admittedly a bit belated, but just in time for the start of fall semesters and quarters, here is the journal roundup for this August. Without further ado…
In American Ethnologist, Susan Greenhalgh and Peter Benson conduct a brief call-and-response in Biopolitics and the “War on Fat”, an AE forum:
Weighty subjects: The biopolitics of the U.S. war on fat
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Global Mental Health and its Discontents
The field of Global Mental Health (GMH) is an emerging formation of knowledge and practice seeking to address mental illness on a global scale. A growing body of research has established mental illness as one of the most pressing “burdens of disease” (Lancet series, 2007). Recently, an article in Nature entitled “Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health…
Special Issue: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, “Ethnographies of Suicide”
The June issue of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry is a special issue entitled, “Ethnographies of Suicide.” As guest editors James Staples and Tom Widger write in their introduction:
“This special issue—which has its genesis in a 2-day, international workshop3—comes at the end of a century of sporadic anthropological interest in suicidal behaviour, building on the groundwork established by scholars such
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Special Issue: Transcultural Psychiatry, “Rethinking Cultural Competence”
The April issue of Transcultural Psychiatry is a special issue that grows out of an event held in April 2010 at the McGill Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry, entitled “Rethinking Cultural Competence from International Perspectives.” As editor Laurence J. Kirmayer writes in the introduction:
Despite…attention to culture, models of mental health services, guidelines for clinical practice, and therapeutic interventions
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Global Mental Health: Bridging the Perspectives of Cultural Psychiatry and Public Health
Next year’s Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry, hosted by the Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, will be held on July 5-7, 2012 and will be devoted to global mental health. Here’s the abstract for the event:
The emerging field of global mental health aims to address the enormous disparities in mental health outcomes
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