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Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing : Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781784503451
  • 1784503452
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing : Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice.DDC classification:
  • 362.1 23
LOC classification:
  • RA418 .T63 2017eb
NLM classification:
  • WM 101
Online resources:
Contents:
Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing -- Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice by Dr Natalie Tobert; Foreword by Michael Cornwall PhD; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART ONE; Introduction; 1. Consensual Reality, Spirituality and Religion; 2. Culture, Nationality and Ethnicity; 3. Cultural Beliefs about Health and Illness; 4. The Human Body ; 5. Beliefs about Conception and Human Identity; 6. Women's Bodies and Human Behaviour ; 7. Cultural U-Turns and Changing Responses to Consensus; PART TWO; 8. Cultural Knowledge on Death and Dying.
9. Cultural Beliefs about Survival Beyond Death10. Anomalous Experiences: A. Religious and Spiritual Experiences ; 11. Anomalous Experiences: B. Near-Death Experiences (NDE), Out-of-Body Experiences (OBE), End-of-Life Experiences (ELE) ; 12. Anomalous Experiences: C. Cultural Interpretations of Mental Health; 13. Anomalous Experiences: D. Popular Uprisings and Spiritual Awakening; 14. Anomalous Experiences: E. Deliberate Shifts in Consciousness; 15. Why Address Cultural Understandings and Academic Fixity?; 16. Acknowledging Dissonance as a Way Forward ; 17. Towards Positive Change.
Summary: Providing much needed understandings of cultural differences in attitudes and beliefs towards issues such as illness, death and mental health, this book is a remedy against the cultural dissonance occurring at present between Western medical systems and their increasingly diverse patients, in order to facilitate integrated and suitable care.
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Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing -- Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice by Dr Natalie Tobert; Foreword by Michael Cornwall PhD; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART ONE; Introduction; 1. Consensual Reality, Spirituality and Religion; 2. Culture, Nationality and Ethnicity; 3. Cultural Beliefs about Health and Illness; 4. The Human Body ; 5. Beliefs about Conception and Human Identity; 6. Women's Bodies and Human Behaviour ; 7. Cultural U-Turns and Changing Responses to Consensus; PART TWO; 8. Cultural Knowledge on Death and Dying.

9. Cultural Beliefs about Survival Beyond Death10. Anomalous Experiences: A. Religious and Spiritual Experiences ; 11. Anomalous Experiences: B. Near-Death Experiences (NDE), Out-of-Body Experiences (OBE), End-of-Life Experiences (ELE) ; 12. Anomalous Experiences: C. Cultural Interpretations of Mental Health; 13. Anomalous Experiences: D. Popular Uprisings and Spiritual Awakening; 14. Anomalous Experiences: E. Deliberate Shifts in Consciousness; 15. Why Address Cultural Understandings and Academic Fixity?; 16. Acknowledging Dissonance as a Way Forward ; 17. Towards Positive Change.

BibliographySubject Index; Author Index.

Providing much needed understandings of cultural differences in attitudes and beliefs towards issues such as illness, death and mental health, this book is a remedy against the cultural dissonance occurring at present between Western medical systems and their increasingly diverse patients, in order to facilitate integrated and suitable care.

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