TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tobert,Natalie
AU  - Cornwall,Michael
TI  - Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing: Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice
SN  - 9781784503451
AV  - RA418 .T63 2017eb
U1  - 362.1 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Psychiatric ethics
KW  - Culture
KW  - Religion
KW  - fast
KW  - Mental Health
KW  - trends
KW  - Mental Health Services
KW  - ethics
KW  - Consensus
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Security
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
N1  - BibliographySubject Index; Author Index; 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
N2  - 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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