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represent a rough continuum. They range from a bold and confident psychiatrist who uses various techniques including ritual healing to another who yearns to incorporate more Indian philosophy and psychology ... to include more talk therapy and/or draw in South Asian disciplines of the mind from classical philosophy to Buddhism to ayurvedic medicine to contemporary ritual healing practices. The diverging
A key tenet of critical health research is that individual symptoms must be considered in light of the social and political contexts that shape or, in some cases, produce them. Precisely how ... Leon's narrative-what I term the surface of the symptom-and to the formal mechanisms by which latent contents (such as the social, the political, and the personal) are transformed into the manifest form of
village health workers within a mental health task-shifting initiative and reveal how the ancient philosophy of Umunthu with its values of interconnectedness, inclusion and inter-relationships informs and ... wealth and the preservation of the life of another human being, then one should opt for the preservation of life. The third saying is a principle deeply embedded in traditional African political philosophy
outside the State’s scrutiny of abortion provision, the Hotline offers its volunteers a way to practice abortion care that aligns with their professional and political commitments and that distances them ... commitments and that distances them from the direct harm they see caused by the political, financial, and bureaucratic constraints of their clinical work. By delineating the structure of this new regime of
realities, and social politics? In what ways might the language of pain act on and transform the world by shaping and changing socio-political agendas? I explored these questions among women in Kosovo and ... Anthropology 25 ( 1 ): 19 - 43 . 2011 What Is Deleuzean Political Philosophy . Cr´ıtica Contempora´nea . Revista De Teor´ıa Pol´ıtica 1 : 115 - 126 . 2011 Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance
quo, they could serve other, more radical ends too. To highlight the complexity of the political positioning of medical workers and healthcare, this article focuses on the town of Hebron during the ... range of colonial and missionary archival sources. The first part of the article uses the case study of an Egyptian medical doctor who took up political office in the town in moments of crisis to show how
witness, I will explore the ways in which illness narratives can reveal the complex moral and political economies of the colonial world. ... political economies of the colonial world. KeywordsMental illness Narratives Feminist ethics Gender Moral and political economies German South West Africa Introduction When we rave, we rave against the
childhood and trauma are based on bio-psychological frameworks emanating from the Global North, often at odds with the historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts in which interventions are ... insufficient consideration of the specificity of the origins of such frameworks (Young 1995) nor of the historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts in which they are enacted (Bracken 2002). We
biological anomaly, but a complex response to life experience, and in Rosa’s case, an embodiment of oppression. This makes Rosa’s own political agency visible and her calls for justice and recognition ... that assert psychiatric diagnosis and biomedicine are themselves cultural products that reproduce and maintain hegemonic political ideologies about personhood and society (Gordon 1988; Comaroff 1982
. (2020), “[r]adical changes in the technological, economic, or political conditions (e.g., revolution, market collapse, forced immigration or deportation, genocide, terrorism, violence, the assassination ... of a political leader) can affect core values, beliefs, and norms, creating cultural disorientation and possible cultural trauma” (p. 172–173). Due to cultural trauma, communities of color can
what the clinical psychology profession says it is? Is it a moral philosophy of the self? Is the business of other people's minds more a matter of philosophy than of science, which cannot separate fact ... but also the obverse, the children whose lives and fate seemingly carry no political valence. The child shot dead by an Israeli soldier or settler in a polity in which, as the Israeli journalist Gideon
regarded as victims but could display agency, whilst also acknowledging social, cultural, economic and political pressures. Although children in the Civil Wars may have experienced trauma, the evidence is ... shaped adults’ behaviour towards children. These will have had an impact on the way childhood was experienced, along with the other economic, demographic and political structures that shape society
results also show that the use of manuals for the classification of mental disorders is contested among psychologists in Brazil. Most psychologists stressed patients’ socio-political suffering and saw ... -political suffering and saw patients’ symptoms as normal reactions to their experiences. There is a need to acknowledge the socio-political suffering of refugees in Brazil and foster their mental health by
privileged South Africans, discussed their sensitivity to cultural issues, but also mentioned a host of political, racial and identity issues which profoundly affect their work. The data suggest that the ... to be considered at the organisational and political level, a level over which the spiritual carers themselves, as individuals, have no control. In this regard, it is important to remember that though
directs attention to the organization (or disorganization) of care produced by institutional and extra-institutional political forces, within and outside the clinic. It is engaged as it is directly informed ... by and seeking to inform already existing political struggles happening outside the clinic. The second part presents fives themes from our collaborative ethnography that demonstrate tensions in jail
signs and symptoms. Major political, economic, and ideological shifts occurred in American life and social policy that provided the context for this increasingly pharmacocentric clinical psychiatry, a ... drugs reveals that there was nothing inevitable about the specific ways in which physicians would eventually use these drugs beginning in the 1970s. As we will see, the social, institutional, political
institutionalised. This was part and parcel of a global political project in the course of which Western psychiatry attempted to leave behind its colonial legacies and entanglements, and lay the foundation for a more ... broader social psychiatry concepts—such as social class, occupation, socio-economic change, political and group pressures and relations etc.—which were quickly becoming central to mental health research in
This paper uses an "exit and voice" political economy model to examine the institutional impact of brain drain, human capital, and inequality. Some of the main findings are: 1) the impact of brain ... , political economy 1. Introduction People migrate for a variety of reasons, including to escape bad economic and political institutions. Individuals facing such institutions can remain in their home
This paper uses an "exit and voice" political economy model to examine the institutional impact of brain drain, human capital, and inequality. Some of the main findings are: 1) the impact of brain ... , political economy 1. Introduction People migrate for a variety of reasons, including to escape bad economic and political institutions. Individuals facing such institutions can remain in their home
This paper uses an "exit and voice" political economy model to examine the institutional impact of brain drain, human capital, and inequality. Some of the main findings are: 1) the impact of brain ... , political economy 1. Introduction People migrate for a variety of reasons, including to escape bad economic and political institutions. Individuals facing such institutions can remain in their home
