Culture And Common Mental Disorders In Sub-Saharan Africa (Maudsley Monographs), by Vickram Patel
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The influence of culture on mental illness has been the subject of considerable academic investigation and debate in recent years. This debate has provoked concerns about the validity and reliability of older methodologies which emphasised either universal characteristics of disorders which were heavily biased towards Euro-American systems, or the culturally relativist approach which saw psychological disorders as products largely of their own culture. The "new" cross-cultural psychiatry proposed that the integration of ethnographic and epidemiological techniques be required to enable a culture sensitive psychiatric model to emerge. This monograph describes a series of research studies conducted in primary care in Harare, Zimbabwe, focusing on the most frequent of all psychological disorders, Common Mental Disorders (CMD). The four consecutive studies are unique in several respects, most notably, the involvement of both biomedical and traditional health care providers at all stages, the development of an indigenous measure of CMD for use in epidemiological investigations, the examination of the relationship between local and biomedical models of psychological disorder and the sociodemographic and economic risk factors for CMD. The experiences and findings of these studies provide new directions in our understanding of the contribution of culture to the presentation, assessment, classification and risk factors for CMD in primary care in an urban African setting. The methodology used also sets out a model for epidemiological research in other areas of mental health in different cultural settings.
Culture And Common Mental Disorders In Sub-Saharan Africa (Maudsley Monographs), by Vickram Patel- Amazon Sales Rank: #3686644 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-25
- Released on: 2015-06-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x .34" w x 6.14" l, .52 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 148 pages
About the Author Dr Vikram Patel is a Professor of International Mental Health and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK). He is the Joint Director of the School's Centre for Global Mental Health (www.centreforglobalmentalhealth.org). He is also the Co-Director of the Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries at the Public Health Foundation of India. He is a co-founder of Sangath and member of its Managing Committee. He serves on the Ministry of Health (Government of India) Mental Health Policy Group and National Rural Health Mission ASHA Mentoring Group. He also serves on the WHO's Expert Advisory Group for Mental Health and the Technical Steering Committee of the Department of Child and Adolescent Health. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the UK and won the Chalmers Medal from the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 2009. His book Where There Is No Psychiatrist (Gaskell, 2003) has become a widely used manual for community mental health in developing countries. He is a Commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Elegant cross-cultural psychiatric research By Paul Linde If you are an anthropologist, sociologist, or physician interested in performing fieldwork and top-notch cross-cultural research, then Dr. Vikram Patel's book "Culture and Common Mental Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa" is a must-read. The author explains in painstaking detail a lucid synthesis of his library research about mental disorders in Africa with truly elegant and meticulous field research that he conducted while practicing and teaching psychiatry in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe. Although much of the book is presented in technical research terminology, the summary and conclusions sections are clear and thought-provoking. Dr. Patel is truly a pioneer and trailblazer in doing cross-cultural psychiatric research, emulating and expanding on the work of the original guru of cross-cultural psychiatry, Dr. Arthur Kleinman. I recommend this book as a "can't miss" primer on cross-cultural research and pscyhiatric epidemiology.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A good beginning By William Guri Vickram Patel does a great job to present a conceptual framework for understanding mental health in Africa. The mainstream of mental health theories are preponderately Western and often do not adequately represent the reality of mental health in Africa. An important component in African conceptions of both physical and mental health is spirit possession. More than simple superstition spiritual causality is a phenomenon worthy of the attention of health care givers. Patel's work opens an avenue for beginning to understand the significance of African spirituality in the whole of health. I recommend this book highly for those called to work in health in Africa and particulary for mental health care givers.
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