Kirmayer L.J. et al. (eds.) Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health

Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 734 p. — ISBN: 9781108431538Revisioning Psychiatry explores new theories and models from cultural psychiatry and psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology that clarify how mental health problems emerge in specific contexts and points toward future integration of these perspectives. Taken together, the contributions point to the need for fundamental shifts in psychiatric theory and practice. Locating efforts to help and heal within the local and global social, economic, and political contexts that influence how we frame problems and imagine solutions. In advancing ecosystemic models of mental disorders, contributors challenge reductionistic models and culture-bound perspectives and highlight possibilities for a more transdisciplinary, integrated approach to research, mental health policy, and clinical practice.Restoring Phenomenology to Psychiatry
Toward a new epistemology of psychiatry
Phenomenology and the interpretation of psychopathological experience
How the self is altered in psychiatric disorders: a neurophenomenal approach
Cultural phenomenology and psychiatric illness
Empathy and alterity in psychiatry
Reflections: the community life of objects - beyond the academic clinic
Biosocial Mechanisms in Mental Health and Illness
Dimensional and categorical approaches to mental illness: let biology decide
Early-life adversity and epigenetic changes: implications for understanding suicide
Understanding the neural circuitry of emotion regulation: white matter tract abnormalities and psychiatric disorder
Paying attention to a field in crisis: psychiatry, neuroscience, and functional systems of the brain
Reflections: hearing voices - how social context shapes psychiatric symptoms
Cultural Contexts of Psychopathology
Understanding the social etiology of psychosis
Toward a cultural neuroscience of anxiety disorders: the multiplex model
From the brain disease model to ecologies of addiction
Cultural clinical psychology: from cultural scripts to contextualized treatments
Psychiatric classification beyond the DSM: an interdisciplinary approach
Reflections: the virtues of cultural sameness - the case of delusion
Part IV. Psychiatric Practice in Global Context
Afflictions: psychopathology and recovery in cultural context
Eating pathology in Fiji: phenomenologic diversity, visibility, and vulnerability
Solving global mental health as a delivery problem: toward a critical epistemology of the solution
Global mental health praxis: perspectives from cultural psychiatry on research and intervention
Reflections: social inequalities and mental health outcomes - toward a new architecture for global mental health
Conclusion: re-visioning psychiatry - toward an ecology of mind in health and illness