{"product_id":"the-movement-for-global-mental-william-sax-9789463721622","title":"The Movement for Global Mental Health: Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Movement for Global Mental Health: Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia\u003c\/i\u003e, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH). They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that mental disorders can clearly be identified; that they are primarily of biological origin; that the world is currently facing an epidemic of them; that the most appropriate treatments for them normally involve psycho-pharmaceutical drugs; and that local or indigenous therapies are of little interest or importance for treating them. The contributors argue that, on the contrary, defining mental disorders is difficult and culturally variable; that social and biographical factors are often important causes of them; that the epidemic of mental disorders may be an effect of new ways of measuring them; and that the countries of South and Southeast Asia have abundant, though non-psychiatric, resources for dealing with them. In short, they advocate a thoroughgoing mental health pluralism.1. Introduction: Global Mental Health: Critical Views from South Asia and Beyond - William Sax and Claudia Lang, Critical Histories, 2. Mental Ills for All: Genealogies of Global Mental Health - Stefan Ecks, 3. Schizoid Balinese? Anthropology's Double-Bind: Radical Alterity and Its Consequences for Schizophrenia - Annette Hornbacher, 4. Misdiagnosis: Global Mental Health, Social Determinants of Health and Beyond - Anindya Das and Mohan Rao, The Limits of Global Mental Health, 5. Jinns and the Proletarian Mumin Subject: Exploring the Limits of Global Mental Health in Bangladesh - Projit Bihari Mukharji, 6. Psychedelic Therapy: Diplomatic Re-compositions of Life\/Non-life, and the Living and the Dead - Harish Naraindas, Alternatives, 7. The House of Love and the Mental Hospital: Zones of Care and Recovery in South India - Murphy Halliburton, 8. Ayurvedic Psychiatry and the Moral Physiology of Depression in Kerala - Claudia Lang, 9. Global Mental Therapy - William Sax, Afterwords, 10. Afterword - Johannes Quack, 11. 'Treatment' and Why We Need Alternatives: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Psychiatric Incarceration in India Anonymous, Index.1. The contributors are leading figures from a variety of disciplines 2. The essays take a sympathetic but critical view of MGMH 3. The book takes a particular geographical point of view: from South and Southeast Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Sax\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9463721622\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789463721622\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"William Sax","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48113887838463,"sku":"9789463721622","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6b21233d-bab1-431d-afd4-73299d17ea6c.jpg?v=1769617767","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-movement-for-global-mental-william-sax-9789463721622","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}