Global Mental Health – Condensed Reading list.
Books:
Public Health Perspectives:
• Patel, V., Minas, H., Cohen, A., & Prince, M. J. (Eds.). (2013). Global mental health: Principles and practice. Oxford University Press.
Critical Perspectives:
• Kohrt, B. A., Mendenhall, E., & Brown, P. J. (2018). Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspective. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 1-10.
• White, R. G., Jain, S., Orr, D. M., & Read, U. M. (Eds.). (2017). The Palgrave handbook of sociocultural perspectives on global mental health. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Non-Fiction:
• For an accessible account of some of the critical arguments surrounding Global Mental Health: Watters, E. (2010). Crazy like us: The globalization of the American psyche. Simon and Schuster.
• For an accessible account of the history of Madness (from a Western perspective): Porter, R. (2002). Madness: A brief history. Oxford University Press.
Articles:
Public Health Perspectives:
• Most recent Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health: Patel, V., Saxena, S., Lund, C., Thornicroft, G., Baingana, F., Bolton, P., ... & Herrman, H. (2018). The Lancet Commission on global mental health and sustainable development. The Lancet, 392(10157), 1553-1598.
• Friendship Bench Program in Zimbabwe (Task shifting and psychological intervention in Primary Care) : Chibanda, D., Weiss, H. A., Verhey, R., Simms, V., Munjoma, R., Rusakaniko, S., ... & Abas, M. (2016). Effect of a primary care–based psychological intervention on symptoms of common mental disorders in Zimbabwe: a randomized clinical trial. Jama, 316(24), 2618-2626.
• MANAS program in India (Task shifting in Primary Care): Patel, V., Weiss, H. A., Chowdhary, N., Naik, S., Pednekar, S., Chatterjee, S., ... & Simon, G. (2010). Effectiveness of an intervention led by lay health counsellors for depressive and anxiety disorders in primary care in Goa, India (MANAS): a cluster randomised controlled trial. The Lancet, 376(9758), 2086-2095.
• Systematic review of Task shifting approaches: Hoeft, T. J., Fortney, J. C., Patel, V., & Unützer, J. (2018). Task-sharing approaches to improve mental health care in rural and other low-resource settings: a systematic review. The Journal of rural health, 34(1), 48-62.
• Systematic review of stigma reducing intervention in Primary Care: Heim, E., Kohrt, B. A., Koschorke, M., Milenova, M., & Thornicroft, G. (2020). Reducing mental health-related stigma in primary health care settings in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review. Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences, 29.
• Interaction with traditional healers: Campbell-Hall, V., Petersen, I., Bhana, A., Mjadu, S., Hosegood, V., Flisher, A. J., & MHaPP Research Programme Consortium. (2010). Collaboration between traditional practitioners and primary health care staff in South Africa: developing a workable partnership for community mental health services. Transcultural psychiatry, 47(4), 610- 628.
Critical Perspectives:
• General critical arguments on Global Mental Health: Bayetti, C., & Jain, S. (2017). Problematising global mental health. Routledge International Handbook of Critical Mental Health, 224.
• Critical perspectives on the cross-cultural validity of psychiatric diagnostic categories and the use of psychometric scales:
2 Ventevogel, P., Jordans, M., Reis, R., & De Jong, J. (2013). Madness or sadness? Local concepts of mental illness in four conflict-affected African communities. Conflict and health, 7(1), 3.
• Critical perspectives on the notion of scales and the use of metrics in Global Mental Health: Bemme, D., & D’souza, N. A. (2014). Global mental health and its discontents: An inquiry into the making of global and local scale. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(6), 850-874.
• Critical perspectives on GMH ideas, their translation into national policy and their practical implementation: Jain, S., & Jadhav, S. (2009). Pills that swallow policy: Clinical ethnography of a community mental health program in Northern India. Transcultural psychiatry, 46(1), 60-85.
• Critical perspectives on the cultural validity of mental health recovery: Bayetti, C., Jadhav, S., & Jain, S. (2017). The re-covering self: a critique of the recovery- based approach in India’s mental health care.
• Perspectives on local suffering, mental health and traditional healing: Read, U. M., Adiibokah, E., & Nyame, S. (2009). Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights: An ethnographic study of responses to mental illness in rural Ghana. Globalization and Health, 5(1), 13.
• Perspective on mental health, our interaction with our wider ecologies, and the importance of narrative in clinical practice: Jadhav, S., & Barua, M. (2012). The Elephant Vanishes: Impact of human–elephant conflict on people's wellbeing. Health & place, 18(6), 1356-1365.
• Postcolonial arguments on Global Mental Health: Davar, B. V. (2017). Globalizing psychiatry and the case of ‘vanishing’alternatives in a neocolonial state.
Wider Readings on Culture and Health:
Fadiman, A. (2012). The spirit catches you and you fall down: A Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures. Macmillan.
Napier, A. D., Ancarno, C., Butler, B., Calabrese, J., Chater, A., Chatterjee, H., ... & Macdonald, A. (2014). Culture and health. The Lancet, 384(9954), 1607-1639.
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