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. In an increasingly diverse society, considerations of culture in mental health treatment are given short shrift, despite obligatory nods to cultural competence.
Key Features
- Explores the intersection of psychoanalysis, community-based clinical work, and cultural studies.
- Includes reports of clinical experiences and programmatic developments from around the world.
- Addresses the origin and treatment of mental illness, from spirit possession to biological understandings.
- Examines the psychological effects of globalization on mental health resources and programs.
Additional Information
The field of mental health has suffered from the mutual isolation of psychoanalysis, community-based clinical work, and cultural studies. Neil Altman shows how these areas of study and practice require and enrich each other—the field of psychoanalysis benefits by engaging marginalized communities; community-based clinical work benefits from psychoanalytic concepts, while all forms of clinical work benefit from awareness of culture.
This book will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, community-based mental health workers, and students in Cultural Studies.
Specifications
Neil Altman is a...
