Mental Health Worldwide: Culture, Globalization And Development

Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. Rooted in detailed analysis of the problems this causes, the book proposes new suggestions for advancing the field of mental health and wellbeing in a way that is ethical, sustainable and culturally sensitive.

• • Author: S. Fernando
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Apr 11, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 222 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137329599
• • ISBN-13: 9781137329592