Psychopathologie Africaine
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 384
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The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa
Author: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0253013046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and other chronic illness on mental health. While problems are rampant and carry real and devastating consequences, this volume promotes an understanding of the African mental health landscape in service of reform.
Focus on Depression Research
Author: Jeremy T. Devito
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781590339770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe global community is negatively impacted on a large-scale with tens of millions of people worldwide suffering from major depression. Economic growth is being stunted and lifestyles and lives crippled. Unfortunately, it is not clear what the myriads of causative factors are. Is it stress alone or stress caused by medical or psychological disorders or unknown combinations of these and other factors? This new book tackles these issues head on by presenting the latest research findings in this pandemic. Trans-Cultural Studies; Investigating Major Depressive Disorders from an Evolutionary Theory Perspective: Fitness Hindrances and The Social Navigation Hypothesis; The Elaborated Cognitive Vulnerability-Transactional Stress Theory of Depression: Introduction of an Integrative General Model and Review of Evidence; Cardiomotor Circuitry, Angina, and Inflammation Mediators in Post-Myocardial Infarction Depression; Eating Disorders: Psycho-dynamic Approach and Therapeutic Attitudes; Cholesterol, Depression, and Suicidal Behaviour; Depression, and Pharmacological Treatments: Biologic Interactions; Antidepressants in the Acute Treatment of Adolescent Major Depression; A New Evaluation Scale for Depression Using a Verbal Information and a Multivariate Analysis; Index.
An Impossible Inheritance
Author: Katie Kilroy-Marac
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0520300203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance tells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a distinctive project in transcultural psychiatry initiated at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal during the 1960s and 1970s. Today’s clinic remains haunted by its past and Katie Kilroy-Marac brilliantly examines the complex forms of memory work undertaken by its affiliates over a sixty year period. Through stories such as that of the the ghost said to roam the clinic’s halls, the mysterious death of a young doctor sometimes attributed to witchcraft, and the spirit possession ceremonies that may have taken place in Fann’s courtyard, Kilroy-Marac argues that memory work is always an act of the imagination and a moral practice with unexpected temporal, affective, and political dimensions. By exploring how accounts about the Fann Psychiatric Clinic and its past speak to larger narratives of postcolonial and neoliberal transformation, An Impossible Inheritance examines the complex relationship between memory, history, and power within the institution and beyond.
Medical Anthropology in Europe
Author: Elisabeth Hsu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-17
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1317613066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together three generations of medical anthropologists working at European universities to reflect on past, current and future directions of the field. Medical anthropology emerged on an international playing ground, and while other recently compiled anthologies emphasize North American developments, this volume highlights substantial ethnographic and theoretical studies undertaken in Europe. The first four chapters trace the beginnings of medical anthropology back into the two formative decades between the 1950s-1970s in Italy, German-speaking Europe, the Netherlands, France and the UK, supported by four brief vignettes on current developments. Three core themes that emerged within this field in Europe – the practice of care, the body politic and psycho-sensorial dimensions of healing – are first presented in synopsis and then separately discussed by three leading medical anthropologists Susan Whyte, Giovanni Pizza and René Devisch, complemented by the work of three early career researchers. The chapters aim to highlight how very diverse (and sometimes overlooked) European developments within this rapidly growing field have been, and continue to be. This book will spur reflection on medical anthropology’s potential for future scholarship and practice, by students and established scholars alike. This book was originally published as a special issue of Anthropology and Medicine.
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Author: Peter Karibe Mendy
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2013-10-17
Total Pages: 643
ISBN-13: 081088027X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa, and yet it managed to wrest its independence from Portugal back in 1973, at the cost of a long and bitter struggle against seemingly implacable odds. This was a time to be proud of, and there was also a moment about two decades ago, when it looked like a trendsetter for democracy. Since then things have gone seriously wrong, with a collapsing infrastructure, a dilapidated economy and a political stage prone to military coups d’etats. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Guinea-Bissau tells the long and sometimes unpleasant story. However, like all the country historical dictionaries, it tells it several times and in several ways. First, the chronology traces the history of what became Guinea-Bissau, and this over a period of centuries and not just decades. Then the introduction recounts that history again, providing more insight and understanding, and conveys a good idea of how things are going now. The details follow in the dictionary section with entries on important persons, places, institutions, and events among other things. And the bibliography points to further reading.
Lives Elsewhere
Author: Natale Losi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-11-13
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0429915748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers English-speaking readers one of the best examples of continental European approaches to working psychologically with refugees and migrants, combining ethnopsychiatric elements with insights from systemic approaches and from the theory and practice of narrative psychotherapies.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 1064
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Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 1076
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
Coming into the World
Author: Giovanni Battista La Sala
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009-02-26
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 311021511X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProminent scientists from perinatal medicine, paediatrics, psychology and sociology will meet in Modena, Italy to explore birth as a complex psychological experience for mother, father and child. The proceedings of this interdisciplinary congress are here published in English to reach the broadest possible scientific audience. The goal is to create a dialogue between humanistic and medical perspectives with regard to conception, pregnancy and birth in an era of rapid biotechnological progress, taking different social and cultural contexts into account.
