Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-398) and index.
Contents:
Conventional mental health today -- Good stories and mental health -- How do we learn to be who we are? -- How do we learn to feel what we feel? -- The meaning of pain and depression -- Story and the shaping of identity -- How culture changes biology and genetics -- How culture is context and context shapes behavior -- Stories from science : change is always possible -- The power of ceremony -- How communities create change -- To story or not to story -- Indigenous models for the practice of psychiatry and mental health -- Narratives for anxiety and depression -- Narratives and bipolar disorder -- Narrative approaches to psychosis.
Summary:
"Psychiatry that recognizes the essential role of community in creating a new story of mental health"--Provided by publisher.
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