Suman (Hrsg.) Fernando

Global Psychologies

Mental Health and the Global South

Buch

This book critiques our reliance on Eurocentric knowledge in the education and training of psychology and psychiatry. Chapters explore the diversity of 'constructions of the self' in non-Western cultures, examining traditional psychologies from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and Pre-Columbian America. The authors discuss liberation psychologies and contemporary movements in healing and psychological therapy that draw on both Western and non-Western sources of knowledge. A central theme confronted is the importance, in a rapidly shrinking world, for knowledge systems derived from diverse cultures to be explored and disseminated equally. The author… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Moodley, Roy (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-349-95936-5
EAN: 9781349959365
Produktnummer: 31798398
Verlag: Springer Nature EN
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 329 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm 0 g
Auflage: Nachdr.
Abbildungen: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Tabellen, farbig
Sonstiges: Research

Über den Autor

Suman Fernando is Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the London Metropolitan University, UK. He was a practicing psychiatrist in the UK for over twenty years and has published and lectured extensively there and in Canada. He has also worked in Sri Lanka. Roy Moodley is Associate Professor of Clinical and Counselling Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He teaches and researches in race, culture and psychotherapy; and traditional healing practices. He is the Director for the Center for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Toronto.