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Book Synopsis Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa by : Tiffany Fawn Jones
Download or read book Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa written by Tiffany Fawn Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of South African mental institutions and policy from 1939-1994. It examines how racial, gender and sexual discrimination affected practitioners' views and practices, and also reveals the role that patients and international events played in shaping mental health policy.
Book Synopsis Colonial Psychiatry and the African Mind by : Jock McCulloch
Download or read book Colonial Psychiatry and the African Mind written by Jock McCulloch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first history of psychiatry in colonial Africa, Jock McCulloch describes the clinical approaches of well-known European practitioners, including Frantz Fanon and Wulf Sachs. They operated independently of one another.Yet, despite their differences,they shared a coherent set of ideas about 'the African Mind', based on the colonial notion of African inferiority.By exploring the association between settler ideology and psychiatric research, this study examines colonial science as a system of knowledge and power.
Book Synopsis Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa by : Tiffany Fawn Jones
Download or read book Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa written by Tiffany Fawn Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid state. Between 1939 and 1994, some psychiatric practitioners supported the mandate of the racist and heteropatriarchal government and most mental patients were treated abysmally. However, unlike studies worldwide that show that women, homosexuals and minorities were institutionalized in far higher numbers than heterosexual men, Psychiatry, Mental Institutions and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa reveals how in South Africa, per capita, white heterosexual males made up the majority of patients in state institutions. The book therefore challenges the monolithic and omnipotent view of the apartheid government and its mental health policy. While not contesting the belief that human rights abuses occurred within South Africa’s mental health system, Tiffany Fawn Jones argues that the disparity among practitioners and the fluidity of their beliefs, along with the disjointed mental health infrastructure, diffused state control. More importantly, the book shows how patients were also, to a limited extent, able to challenge the constraints of their institutionalization. This volume places the discussions of South Africa’s mental institutions in an international context, highlighting the role that international organizations, such as the Church of Scientology, and political events such as the gay rights movement and the Cold War also played in shaping mental health policy in South Africa.
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Book Synopsis The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa by : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Download or read book The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa written by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and other chronic illness on mental health. While problems are rampant and carry real and devastating consequences, this volume promotes an understanding of the African mental health landscape in service of reform.
Book Synopsis Contradictions and Constructions by : Tiffany F. Jones
Download or read book Contradictions and Constructions written by Tiffany F. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South African psychiatrists perpetuated apartheid notions of racial difference between 1948 and 1977. However, support of apartheid ideology by South African psychiatrists was not necessarily uniform. Rather, some psychiatrists supported apartheid ideology, some opposed it, while others did both. Yet most of the assertions by South African psychiatrists who challenged apartheid ideology inadvertently ended up perpetuating apartheid policies and increasing the gap between services for 'White' and 'non-White' patients. In the early years of apartheid, psychiatric innovations of community psychiatry, which promoted more 'open-door' and community-orientated practices, opposed apartheid notions of racial segregation through its focus on prevention. Yet, community psychiatry also neglected the needs of long-term patients--the majority of whom were 'non-White'. The assassination of the state President, H. F. Verwoerd in 1966, by a 'criminally insane' individual, highlighted the psychiatric profession's inability to deal with the criminally insane and long-term patients. In opposition to those psychiatrists promoting community psychiatry, some psychiatrists called for stricter policies concerning mental patients, the majority of whom were 'non-White'. In the 1970s, assertions of cross-cultural psychiatry rejected the biological and racial basis for 'mental illness' and challenged apartheid racism. However, cross-cultural psychiatry also supported apartheid notions of segregation through its stereotypical view of African culture. Thus, much of the psychiatric perceptions during the height of apartheid were ambiguous and contradictory, and ended up supporting the apartheid state. This was because the apartheid state itself was not completely uniform or free of contradictions.
Book Synopsis The Psychology of Apartheid by : Peter Lambley
Download or read book The Psychology of Apartheid written by Peter Lambley and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Crippling a Nation by : Aziza Seedat
Download or read book Crippling a Nation written by Aziza Seedat and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report on health services and the health of blacks under Apartheid in South Africa R - covers malnutrition, infant mortality, infectious diseases, occupational health, mental health and medical personnel. Maps, photographs and references.
Download or read book States of Mind written by Julie Parle and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the history of mental illness and its cures in colonial and immediately post-Union Natal and Zululand (South Africa) investigates westernized treatments of insanity at the Natal Government Asylum, as well as less well-known routes back to health via African and Indian modes of healing. Author Julie Parle writes of the amandiki, bands of frenzied women who explained their illness as caused by possession by a male ancestor. She discusses frauds, medicines for hysteria and drunkenness, faith healers of different kinds, and suicide in all communities. Finally, she considers how mental health services became centralized under state control from Pretoria, with important consequences for the future of psychiatry and mental health services in modern South Africa.
Book Synopsis Mental Health and Psychiatry in Africa by : David Westley
Download or read book Mental Health and Psychiatry in Africa written by David Westley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "USEFUL TO THOSE SEEKING TO INITIATE RESEARCH, AS WELL AS THOSE INVOLVED IN ETHNOPSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH."--CHOICE. Do Africans experience the same mental illnesses as people in the Western world? What attitudes do Africans have toward the mentally ill? What part do sorcery & spirit possession play in traditional African psychiatry? These are among the questions addressed by this annotated bibliography of more than 900 books & articles published since the groundbreaking 1960 work, SEARCH FOR SECURITY: AN ETHNOPSYCHIATRIC STUDY OF RURAL GHANA. This volume tracks the rise of psychiatry as a science in Africa & the myriad ways in which indigenous & modern medicine are combined. A glossary of terms, & two indexes--one by geographic & ethnic group & one by subject-- make this an easy to use & rewarding guide to transcultural psychiatry.
Book Synopsis The Case of South Africa by : John Dommisse
Download or read book The Case of South Africa written by John Dommisse and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Tiffany Fawn Jones Publisher :Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada ISBN 13 :9780612998124 Total Pages :313 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (981 download)
Book Synopsis Dis-ordered States [microform] : Views about Mental Disorder and the Management of the Mad in South Africa, 1939-1989 by : Tiffany Fawn Jones
Download or read book Dis-ordered States [microform] : Views about Mental Disorder and the Management of the Mad in South Africa, 1939-1989 written by Tiffany Fawn Jones and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2005 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Migration and Mental Health by : Marjory Harper
Download or read book Migration and Mental Health written by Marjory Harper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between migration and mental health is controversial, contested, and pertinent. In a highly mobile world, where voluntary and enforced movements of population are increasing and likely to continue to grow, that relationship needs to be better understood, yet the terminology is often vague and the issues are wide-ranging. Getting to grips with them requires tools drawn from different disciplines and professions. Such a multidisciplinary approach is central to this book. Six historical studies are integrated with chapters by a theologian, geographer, anthropologist, social worker and psychiatrist to produce an evaluation that addresses key concepts and methodologies, and reflects practical involvement as well as academic scholarship. Ranging from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, the book explores the causes of mental breakdown among migrants; the psychological changes stemming from their struggles with challenging life circumstances; and changes in medical, political and public attitudes and responses in different eras and locations.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa by : André J van Rensburg
Download or read book The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa written by André J van Rensburg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book describes key socio-political reforms that helped shape post-apartheid South Africa’s mental health system. The author interrogates how reforms shaped public, community-based services for people living with severe mental illness, and how features of this care has been determined, in part at least, by the relations between actors and structures in the state, private for-profit health care, and civil society spheres. A description of the development of South Africa’s post-apartheid health system, and the contentions that emerge therein, sets the stage for an analysis of the country’s most tragic human rights failure during its democratic period, namely the Life Esidimeni tragedy. The roots of the tragedy are not only framed as a loss of life and dignity as a result of political corruption and administrative mismanagement, but as a power differential that ultimately highlights an unjust system that relegates its most vulnerable citizens to commodities, without voice and without agency. The book concludes that the commodification of severe mental illness has been a product of neoliberal discourses that have shaped the economistic ways in which the post-apartheid South African state have governed poverty and severe mental illness. This book will be of interest to scholars of health, social and economic policy in South Africa.
Book Synopsis Violence and Mental Health by : Jutta Lindert
Download or read book Violence and Mental Health written by Jutta Lindert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence is one of the most important challenges, not only for public health systems, but also for public mental health. Violence can have immediate as well as long-term and even transgenerational effects on the mental health of its victims. This book provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging assessment of the mental health legacy left by violence. It addresses the issues as they affect states, communities and families, in other words at macro-, meso- and microlevels, beginning by describing the impact of violence on neurobiology and mental health, as well as the spectrum of syndromes and disorders associated with different forms of violence. The work moves on to tackle violence at the international—and intranational—level before zeroing in on the nature of violence in communities such as villages or city districts. It also examines the results of violence in the family. Each type of violence has distinct effects on mental health and in each chapter specific groups are explored in depth to demonstrate the heterogeneity of violence as well as the diversity of its outcomes in the realm of public mental health. Finally, the book addresses the notion of ‘undoing violence’ by detailing case studies of effective interventions and prevention occurring in countries, communities and families. These cases give us pause to reflect on the nature of resilience and dignity in the context of violence and mental health. All the chapters have been written by leading authors in the field and provide a state-of-the-art perspective. The authors, from different fields of expertise, facilitate interdisciplinary and international insights into the impact of violence on mental health.
Book Synopsis Madness and marginality by : Will Jackson
Download or read book Madness and marginality written by Will Jackson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on over two hundred and fifty psychiatric case files, this book offers a radical new departure from existing historical accounts of what is still commonly thought of as the most picturesque of Britain’s colonies overseas. By tracing the life histories of Kenya’s ‘white insane’, the book allows for a new account of settler society: one that moves attention away from the ‘great white hunters’ and heroic pioneer farmers to all those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, it raises important new questions around deviance, transgression and social control. Sitting at the intersection of a number of fields, the book will appeal to students and teachers of imperial history, colonial medicine, African history and postcolonial theory and will prove a valuable addition to both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
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