Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing

Table of contents

• Handbook of Culture, Therapy, and Healing *
• Contents vii
• Preface xi
• About the Editors xv
• List of Contributors xvii
• 1 - Approaches to Culture, Healing, and Psychotherapy 1
• I - Culture, Therapy, and Healing: Basic Issues *
• 2 - Culture and the Origins of Psychopathology 15
• 3 - The Role of Culture in Definitions, Interpretations, and Management of Illness 37
• 4 - Cross-Cultural Commonalities in Therapy and Healing: Theoretical Issues and Psychological and Sociocultural Principles 67
• 5 - A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Cross-Cultural Healing 83
• II - Therapeutic Services and Multiculturalism in North America *
• 6 - The Role of Culture in the Treatment of Culturally Diverse Populations 103
• 7 - Culturally Oriented Psychotherapy with Refugees 121
• III - Traditional Healing in the Americas *
• 8 - The Role of Dance in a Navajo Healing Ceremonial 135
• 9 - The Therapeutic Aspects of Salish Spirit Dance Ceremonials 151
• 10 - Traditional Healers in Mexico: the Effectiveness of Spiritual Practices 161
• 11 - Women as Healers: a "Gendered" Exploration in Puerto Rico and Elsewhere 175
• IV - Asian Approaches to Therapy and Healing *
• 12 - Indigenous Chinese Healing: Theories and Methods 191
• 13 - Indigenous Chinese Healing: a Criteria-Based Meta-Analysis of Outcomes Research 213
• 14 - Psychoanalysis and Buddhism 253
• 15 - Japanese Forms of Psychotherapy: Naikan Therapy and Morita Therapy 277
• 16 - Indian Conceptions of Mental Health, Healing, and the Individual 293
• V - Psychotherapy and Healing in Africa and the Arab World *
• 17 - Western Psychotherapy and the Yoruba: Problems of Insight and Nondirective Techniques 311
• 18 - Healing the Wounds Following Protracted Conflict in Angola: a Community-Based Approach to Assisting War-Affected Children 321
• 19 - Native Healing in Arab-Islamic Societies 343
• V - Outlook *
• 20 - From Speculation Through Description Toward Investigation: a Prospective Glimpse at Cultural Research in Psychotherapy 369
• Appendix - Culture, Therapy, and Healing: a Selective Bibliography 389
• Author Index 401
• Subject Index 415

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