Cultural Psychiatry: A Critical Introduction
Cultural Psychiatry: A Critical Introduction (McGill Univ.). This course presents a critical introduction to theory and research in cultural psychiatry - the study of cultural influences on, and responses to, mental health problems.
Topics include: an overview of the history of cultural psychiatry; conceptual problems and research methods for studying culture and context in mental health; somatization and bodily idioms of distress; dissociation of memory and identity;
cultural variations in emotional experience; trauma and the social construction of diagnostic entities; culture and psychosis; the mental health of immigrants and refugees; the mental health of Indigenous peoples; systems of ritual and symbolic healing;
models of mental health care for culturally diverse populations; globalization and the future of cultural psychiatry.
| Lecture 01 - Cultural Psychiatry: A Critical Introduction, Part 1 |
| Lecture 01 - Cultural Psychiatry: A Critical Introduction, Part 2 |
| Lecture 02 - Somatization and Bodily Idioms of Distress, Part 1 |
| Lecture 02 - Somatization and Bodily Idioms of Distress, Part 2 |
| Lecture 03 - Research Methods in Cultural Psychiatry, Part 1 |
| Lecture 03 - Research Methods in Cultural Psychiatry, Part 2 |
| Lecture 04 - Trance, Possession and Dissociation in Cultural Psychiatry, Part 1 |
| Lecture 04 - Trance, Possession and Dissociation in Cultural Psychiatry, Part 2 |
| Lecture 05 - Culture and Psychiatry, Part 1 |
| Lecture 05 - Culture and Psychiatry, Part 2 |
| Lecture 06 - Culture and Emotion, Part 1 |
| Lecture 06 - Culture and Emotion, Part 2 |
| Lecture 07 - Culture and Psychoses, Part 1 |
| Lecture 07 - Culture and Psychoses, Part 2 |
| Lecture 08 - Rethinking Migrant and Refugee Children |
| Lecture 09 - The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples, Part 1 |
| Lecture 09 - The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples, Part 2 |
| Lecture 10 - Healing, Ritual and Psychotherapy, Part 1 |
| Lecture 10 - Healing, Ritual and Psychotherapy, Part 2 |
| Lecture 11 - Models of Mental Health Services in Multicultural Societies |
| Lecture 12 - The Future of Cultural Psychiatry |