Full Description
Featuring contributions from a variety of international voices, this volume draws on a range of disciplinary, practice and experiential perspectives to offer new understandings of relationships between culture and psychosis.
Taking neither culture nor psychosis as neatly defined, the chapters trace how individual illness and recovery experiences, treatment paradigms, and diagnostic categories are all culturally shaped. Together they illustrate that paying attention to culture is crucial to understanding the complexities of lived experiences, as well as the workings of culture in biomedicine and psychiatry. Offering a sensitive and multi-vocal approach to the topic, the book is an innovative, timely and theoretically robust contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of mental health science.
This important book will be of interest to mental health practitioners, students and academics across a range of disciplines, as well as those with lived experience of psychosis.
Contents
Introduction.Reflecting on the Entanglement of Culture and Psychosis Section 1: From the Individual to the Cultural: Subjectivity and Experience in Context 1.Introduction to Culture and Hallucinations 2.The Intersect between Heavy Metal Music Culture and Experiences of 'Psychosis' 3.Hallucinations, Delusions and Psychotic Experience in the Arab World 4.Mysticism and Madness: A Matter of Perspective? 5.Visionary Reality, Culture and Psychosis: Dialogues with Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) 6.Tino Rangatiratanga (Self-determination) 7.Psychosis as an Extreme State: Some Reflections from an Edge Section 2: Collective Psyches: Culture, Society and Environment 8.Heralded Kupu o te Wairua 9.Cultural Ruptures and their Consequences for Mental Health across Generations: The Case of Ireland 10.Racism and me: A Poem and Reflection on the Relationship between Racism and Psychosis 11.What's in a Word - Schizophrenia or Psychosis, Vulnerability or Sensitivity, Recovery or Discovery? 12.Hearing Distressing Voices, Climate Change, and Moral Agency among Maasai Women of Northern Tanzania 13.Freedom Section 3: Healing Systems and Recovery across Contexts 14.Mental Health and Healing in Former French African Colonies 15.Cassandra's Prophetic Knowledge: Trauma, Psychosis, and Culture 16.An Interdisciplinary Critique of Culture, Psychosis and Stigma in Singapore 17.Kundalini and Psychosis: A Personal Journey with Some Clinical Reflections 18.The Othering Culture of Western Biological Psychiatry 19.Possession in Psychiatric Hospitals: Psychosis and Culture in Rural India Afterword.A Culture of Madness
