Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health

• First book on traditional healing and transcultural psychiatry
• Delineates the knowledge and clinical skills of traditional healers from diverse cultural areas around the world
• Describes the clinical and social roles of traditional healers in their communities and the challenges of constructing national mental health programs that include traditional knowledge and healing techniques
• Assesses issues on efficacy and safety of traditional healers' interventions
• Includes contributions from leading scholars in this field from South Africa, India, New Zealand, Andorra, Canada, USA, Italy, and the Quichua and Sioux Lakota Nations of South and North America
• Theme of culture versus science: The psychiatrists discuss the effects of local culture upon mental health and consider the impact, benefit and incorporation of traditional healing as a tool for the clinical psychiatrist
• Easy to use with case studies and vignettes throughout and a glossary to explain any technical terms

Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of a wide array of mental health trainees, researchers and professionals interested in cultural psychiatry in general and the role of traditional healers around the world.