Social and Cultural Psychiatry Experience From the Caribbean Region
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| Title: | Social and Cultural Psychiatry Experience From the Caribbean Region |
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| Description: | This new book captures the history, lifestyles and beliefs of Caribbean people relating them without impunity to the psychology of their emotion, thought and behaviour. This book studies research on the background of historical perspectives, definitions, dimensions and a Caribbean Diaspora, the interpretation of behaviours and mental disorders with contributions from witchcraft, priestcraft and science, as well as the challenge of the local interpretation of mental illness. |
| Authors: | Hari D. Maharajh |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Social psychiatry--Caribbean Area, Cultural psychiatry--Caribbean Area, Manners and customs |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This new book captures the history, lifestyles and beliefs of Caribbean people relating them without impunity to the psychology of their emotion, thought and behaviour. This book studies research on the background of historical perspectives, definitions, dimensions and a Caribbean Diaspora, the interpretation of behaviours and mental disorders with contributions from witchcraft, priestcraft and science, as well as the challenge of the local interpretation of mental illness. |
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| ISBN: | 9781616685065 9781617280887 |
