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Author Rodger, James, author

Title Between trauma and the sacred : the cultural shaping of remitting-relapsing psychosis in post-conflict Timor-Leste / James Rodger, Zachary Steel
Published Switzerland : Springer, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 188 pages)
Series Cultural studies of science and medicine
Cultural studies of science and medicine
Contents Chapter 1: The Historical, Cultural, Epistemological and Research Context of Remitting-Relapsing Psychosis in Timor-Leste -- Chapter 2: Traumatic Structural Dissociation and its Cultural Dimensions -- Chapter 3: Integration with Psychoanalysis and its Cultural Applications -- Chapter 4: Narrative Dimensions of Dissociative-Psychosis -- Chapter 5: An Integrated Model?
Summary This volume develops a dynamic but contextualized multi-level formulation of psychosis and psychotic-symptoms, able to incorporate a range of factors from the biological, through the sociocultural, to the political. The work is truly interdisciplinary drawing on both the quantitative and qualitative findings of our own study but further supported through local ethnography and broader anthropological enquiry into the outcomes of psychosis in non-Western settings; psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic anthropology; evidence and theory exploring links between trauma, dissociation and psychosis; and novel culturally-adaptable psychosocial focused interventions for psychosis. We situate both evidence and theorising in wider epistemological and political context, including in relation to the movement for Global Mental Health. Culturally patterned presentations of brief remitting-relapsing psychosis are ultimately conceived as the trade-off between competing fragmentary and synthetic forces: the former in part secondary to the lasting and deleterious effects of overwhelming loss, trauma and adversity; the latter emboldened by cultural meaning and social response in the context of broad ecological pressures demanding survival and resilience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 24, 2016)
Subject Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Timor-Leste
Psychic trauma -- Timor-Leste
Psychoses -- Timor-Leste
Culture -- Psychological aspects
Mental health -- Timor-Leste
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Culture -- Psychological aspects
Mental health
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Psychic trauma
Psychoses
Timor-Leste
Form Electronic book
Author Steel, Zachary, author
ISBN 9783319244242
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