present a Current Event where the relationship between Culture and Mental Health can be analyzed.
- When should this current event have happened? The current event selected must have happened between 2018 and 2021.
- Where can I find the information about a current event? The sources of information can be the media, newspapers, a documentary films, among others (not academic articles).
- What kind of current event should I search for? The current event can be something related to the conceptions about mental health and illness, narratives of mental illness in popular media, mental health/illness experienced by specific groups (considering age, gender, ethnicity), mental health stigma, treatments for mental health(alternative -religious- or hegemonic -pharmaceuticals-). You could also search for some current event that allows you to explore how particular social, cultural, economic, or political contexts have affected specific groups’ mental health conditions, among other current events that you find interesting.
- What should I focus on in my presentation? The students must present the current event context, the facts that will help describe the current event in detail, and, if possible, the meanings it might have for the actors involved. After presenting the contextual information and the current event, bring up some reflections (related to our class). You can use some material from the syllabus and discussions we have had in class to reflect on what this current event shows us about the relationship between Culture and Mental Health. Finally, propose two questions to generate a discussion with all the group (you can do this using Mentimeter or any other source that you find helpful to motivate participation or present the questions to the group for voluntary participation. In summary, the presentation includes the following sections: Contextual information, Current Event description, preliminary analysis, group discussion.
- How should I organize the time for the presentation? Ten minutes for the presentation and five minutes for the group discussion are suggested.
- Please elaborate a slides show for your presentation (a maximum of four slides are suggested) and upload it in Canvas at least one hour before the class you will present.
Here is the class readings
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White R., Orr D., Read U. and Jain S. 2017. Situating Global Mental Health: Sociocultural
Perspectives. pp. 1-16. In White R., Jain S., Orr D. and Read U. (eds.). The Palgrave
Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health. Palgrave Macmillan.
Historical Perspectives on Mental Health: Asia, Africa and the West
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Pinto S.A. 2018. Indian Insanity and the Local-Colonial Contest for its Treatment. In:
Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay. Mental Health in Historical Perspective.
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94244-5_2
Harding Christopher. 2017. Historical Reflections on Mental Health and Illness: India,
Japan and the West. pp. 71-92. In White R., Jain S., Orr D. and Read U. (eds.). The
Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health. Palgrave
Macmillan.
Akyeampong Emmanuel. 2015. A Historical Overview of Psychiatry in Africa. pp. 24-49.
In Akyeampong, Hill and Kleinman (eds.). The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric
Practice in Africa. Indiana University Press.
Anthropological Perspectives on Mental Health
15 Psychiatry from an Anthropological Perspective
Arthur Kleinman. 1988. Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal
Experience. The Free Press. (Chapters 1 and 2: What is a Psychiatric Diagnosis? Do
Psychiatric Disorders differ in different Cultures? pp. 5-33).
22 Critical Reflections on Mental Health
Whitley Rob. Beyond Critique: Rethinking Roles for the Anthropology of Mental Health.
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (2014) 38: 499-511. DOI 10.1007/s11013-014-9382-y
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Dyck E. and Rusell G. 2020. Challenging Psychiatry Classification: Healthy Autistic
Diversity and the Neurodiversity Movement. In Taylor S. and Brumby A. Healthy Minds in
the Twentieth Century. In and Beyond the Asylum.
Gavin Miller. 2017. Reflecting on Medicalization of Distress. pp. 93-108. In White R., Jain
S., Orr D. and Read U. (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on
Global Mental Health. Palgrave Macmillan.
29 Mental Health and Experience
Jenkins, Janis H. 2015. Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental
Illness. University of California Press. (Chapter 1, 2 and 3).
Social/Cultural dimensions of Mental Health/Illness
MAY
6 Religion and Spirituality
Csordas, T. 2017. Psychiatry and the Sweat Lodge: Therapeutic Resources for Native
American Adolescents. pp. 127-139. In Basu H., Littlewood R., and Steinforth A. (eds.)
Spirit and Mind: Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion and Psychiatry. Lit. Verlag
Dr. W. Hopf.
Khoury N., Kaiser B., Keys H. and Brewster A. Explanatory Models and Mental Health
Treatment: Is Vodou an Obstacle to Psychiatric Treatment in Rural Haiti? Culture,
Medicine and Psychiatry (2012) 36: 514-534. DOI 10.1007/s11013-012-9270-2
13 Ethnic Differences
Zeledon I., West A., Antony V., Telles V., Begay C., Henderson B., Unger J., Soto C.
Statewide collaborative partnership among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN)
communities in California to target the opioid epidemic: Preliminary results of the Tribal
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) key informant needs assessment. Journal of
Susbstance Abuse Treatment108 (2020) 9-19.
O’Nell Teresa D. Culture and Pathology. Flathead Loneliness Revisited. The 2001 Roger
Allan Moore Lecture. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.28: 221-230, 2004.
20 Migration
Paat Y. and Green R. 2017. Mental Health of Immigrants and Refugees seeking legal
services on the US-Mexico Border. Transcultural Psychiatry. Vol. 54 (5-6) 783-805. DOI:
10.1177/1363461517746316
Gozdziak E. Training Refugee Mental Health Providers: Ethnography as a Bridge to
Multicultural Practice. Society for Applied Anthropology. Human Organization, Summer
2004, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 203-210.
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Este D., Simich L., Hamilton H. and Sato C. 2017. Perceptions and understandings of
mental health from three Sudanese communities in Canada. International Journal of
Culture and Mental Health. 10:3, 238-249, DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2017.1296876
27 COVID-19 and Mental Health
Abarca-Brown Gabriel. Haitian migration and dreams in Chile: Questions for global mental
health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Somatosphere. Science, Medicine and
Anthropology. July 27, 2020.
Emily A Holmes, Rory C O’Connor, V Hugh Perry, Irene Tracey, Simon Wessely, Louise
Arseneault, Clive Ballard, Helen Christensen, Roxane Cohen Silver, Ian Everall, Tamsin
Ford, Ann John, Thomas Kabir, Kate King, Ira Madan, Susan Michie, Andrew K Przybylski,
Roz Shafran, Angela Sweeney, Carol M Worthman, Lucy Yardley, Katherine Cowan, Claire
Cope, Matthew Hotopf, Ed Bullmore. Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-
19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science. Lancet Psychiatry 2020; 7: 547–60.
https://doi.org/10.1016/ S2215-0366(20)30168-1.
Guan Yanjun, Deng Hong, Zhou Xinyi. Understanding the impact of COVID-19 pandemic
on career development: Insights from cultural psychology. Journal of vocational behavior.
119 (2020) 103438.
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