Decolonizing Global Mental Health The Psychiatrization of the Majority World |
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| Author:
| Mills, China |
| Series title: | Concepts for Critical Psychology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-135-08043-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $44.95 |
Book Description:
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This book offers a critical post-colonial reading of the newly emerging arena of global mental health; with particular focus on psychology's and psychiatry's encounters with distress or 'mental illness' in low-income countries.
This book offers a critical post-colonial reading of the newly emerging arena of global mental health; with particular focus on psychology's and psychiatry's encounters with distress or 'mental illness' in low-income countries.