Psychoanalysis in an Age of Accelerating Cultural Change: Spiritual Globalization,Used

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Psychoanalysis in an Age of Accelerating Cultural Change: Spiritual Globalization addresses the current status of mental health work in the public and private sectors. The careful, thorough, approach to the individual person characteristic of psychoanalysis is mostly the province of an affluent few. Meanwhile, communitybased mental health treatment, given shrinking budgets, tends to emphasize medication and shortterm therapies. In an increasingly diverse society, considerations of culture in mental health treatment are given short shrift, despite obligatory nods to cultural competence.The field of mental health has suffered from the mutual isolation of psychoanalysis, communitybased clinical work, and cultural studies. Here, Neil Altman shows how these areas of study and practice require and enrich each other the field of psychoanalysis benefits by engaging marginalized communities; communitybased clinical work benefits from psychoanalytic concepts, while all forms of clinical work benefit from awareness of culture. Including reports of clinical experiences and programmatic developments from around the world, its international scope explores the operation of culture and cultural differences in conceptions of mental health. In addition the book addresses the origin and treatment of mental illness, from notions of spirit possession treated by shamans, to conceptions of psychic trauma, to biological understandings and pharmacological treatments. In the background of this discussion is globalization, the impact of which is tracked in terms of its psychological effects on people, as well as on the resources and programs available to provide psychological care around the world.As a unique examination of current mental health work, this book will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, communitybased mental health workers, and students in Cultural Studies.Neil Altman is a psychoanalytic psychologist, Visiting Professor at Ambedkar University of Delhi, India, and faculty and supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute. He is an Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society and Editor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Author of The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture through a Psychoanalytic Lens (Routledge, 2nd edition, 2010)

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