Psychiatrists and traditional healers [[electronic resource] ] : unwitting partners in global mental health / / editors, Mario Incayawar, Ronald Wintrob, Lise Bouchard ; honorary editor, Goffredo Bartocci

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830057103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-13813-8; 9786612138133; 0-470-74105-8; 0-470-74106-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Collana: World Psychiatric Association evidence and experience in psychiatry series
• Altri autori (Persone): IncayawarMario; BouchardLise; WintrobRonald; BartocciGoffredo
• Disciplina: 616.89
• Soggetti: Psychiatry, Transcultural; Healers
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Psychiatrists andTraditional Healers; Contents; Foreword by Raymond H. Prince; Foreword by Goffredo Bartocci; Salutation by Juan E. Mezzich; Preface; Contributors; 1 Overview: Looking Toward the Future of Shared Knowledge and Healing Practices; 1.1 Introductory Remarks; 1.2 Complementary and Alternative Medicine; 1.3 The US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; 1.4 Botanicals, Biological Products and their Commercial Development; 1.5 The Medical, Medicinal and Botanical Knowledge and the Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples; 1.6 Supernatural Determinism, Faith Healing and Exorcism1.7 Faith Healing; 1.8 Curanderismo and Candomble; 1.9 Toward the Integration of Medical and Traditional Healing; Case Examples from the Americas; 1.10 Concluding Comments; 2 Legitimacy and Contextual Issues in Traditional Lakota Sioux Healing; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Definitions; 2.3 ; Research on Indigenous Healing in the Americas; 2.4 Traditional Lakota Sioux Healing; 2.5 Renewed Interest in Traditional Medicine; 2.6 Rephrasing a Typical Question; 2.7 Issues with Legitimacy; 2.8 Reimbursement for Traditional Healing Services in the United States: What are we Getting Ourselves into?Conclusion; References; 3 Doctor-Patient Relationship in Psychiatry: Traditional Approaches in India Versus Western Approaches; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Psychotherapy: Definitions and Common Concepts; 3.3 Western Models of the Doctor-Patient Relationship; 3.4 Traditional Models of the Doctor-Patient Relationship; 3.5 Psycho-Cultural Variables Relevant to the Doctor-Patient Relationship; Conclusion; 4 South American Indigenous Knowledge of Psychotropics; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Definitions; 4.3 Three Indigenous Peoples' Medicinal Plants: Quinine, Coca and Ayahuasca4.4 Legal Issues; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5 Psychiatric Case Identification Skills of Yachactaita (Quichua Healers of the Andes); 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Quichua People; 5.3 Research Methods; 5.4 Comparison of Quichua and Western Diagnosis; 5.5 The Western Clinical Diagnosis; 5.6 Diagnostic Ability of Yachactaitas; 5.7 Traditional Healers' Diagnostic Abilities in Other Societies; 5.8 Clinical, Research and Health Policy Implications; Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; 6 A Western Psychiatrist among the Shuar People of Ecuador6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The Shuar Culture; 6.3 Shuar Hallucinogenic Use; 6.4 The Survey; 6.5 Previous Research in the Shuar Area; 6.6 First Steps in the Shuar Territory: Collaborating as a Psychiatrist; 6.7 Witchcraft and Disease; 6.8 The Wishin (the Shuar Shaman); 6.9 The Natem Experience; Conclusion; References; 7 The Awakening of Collaboration between Quichua Healers and Psychiatrists in the Andes; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Pervasive Social Exclusion; 7.3 Health Disparities and Health Care Inequities; 7.4 The Quichua Response: Jambihuasi; 7.5 Going Further: The Foundation of Runajambi
• Sommario/riassunto: This exceptional book responds to the intense current interest in defining and understanding the contribution of traditional medical knowledge and the intervention techniques of traditional healers to national mental health services around the world.First book on traditional healing and transcultural psychiatryDelineates the knowledge and clinical skills of traditional healers from diverse cultural areas around the worldDescribes the clinical and social roles of traditional healers in their communities and the challenges of constructing national mental health pr