Description:
This book offers a critical post-colonial reading of the newly emerging arena of global mental health; with particular focus on psychology's and psychiatry's encounters with distress or 'mental illness' in low-income countries.
Pub Date: November 11, 2013
Dewey: 362.19689
LCCN: 2013022955
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Illustrated, Maps
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.40" H x 8.60" L x 5.50" W ( 0.60 lbs) 178 pages
BISAC Categories:
Medical | Health Care Delivery | Psychology | Social Psychology | Social Science | Developing and Emerging Countries
Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology
Description:
This book offers a critical post-colonial reading of the newly emerging arena of global mental health; with particular focus on psychology's and psychiatry's encounters with distress or 'mental illness' in low-income countries.