In this book two psychiatrists assess the psychological consequences of migration and prejudice for groups as diverse as West Indians, Turkish Cypriots and Hasidic Jews. The authors conclude that mental illness can be an intelligible response to disadvantage and prejudice.

Aliens and Alienists: Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry

Medical Books

Littlewood, Roland

Lipsedge, Maurice

Medicine

Routledge

In this classic text the authors examine the links between racism, psychological ill health and inadequate treatment of ethnic minorities. Through a series of case studies they discuss: * the psychological legacy of colonialism and slavery * the racist bias in psychiatric and psychological theory * diagnostic bias * the role of religion in mental health or illness * the value of anthropological and pschoanalytic insights. The concluding chapter in this edition reviews the development of 'transcultural psychiatry' and summarises changes in administration of the Mental Health Act.

Unwin Hyman

Aliens and Alienists (Pelican)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Penguin

Helping us to better understand how we interactively use religion and science/healing to come to terms with our world, this book presents Roland Littlewood's psychiatric work with patients from Western religious movements; his earlier anthropological fieldwork with an African-Caribbean religion in Trinidad; as well as his work with ethical transformations in older Caribbean cults and among ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidim. He not only examines the religious aspect in systems of therapeutics but also the appearance of healing practices within social institutions that are generally regarded as religious.

Religion, Agency, and Restitution: The Wilde Lectures in Natural Religion 1999

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Professor Little wood marshals arguments that help us understand more clearly how we interactively use religion and science/healing to come to terms with the world around us. He draws in part on his clinical work as a psychiatrist with patients from religious movements in the West, but primarily on his earlier anthropological fieldwork with a new African-Caribbean religion in Trinidad, and more recently with ethical transformations in the older Caribbean cults and among the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidim. There exists a close relationship between the explanations of misfortune, reconciliation, and restitution in the historical - and other - religions and in therapeutics. Professor Little wood believes that cosmological and redemptive assumptions exist in any type of healing, whether physical or psychological. Spiritual and healing theories interact in surprising ways, and he examines the religious aspect in systems of therapeutics as well as the appearance of healing practices within social institutions that are generally regarded as religious.

Religion, Agency, Restitution

Religion & Spirituality

Oxford University Press M.D.

Mental Health

Cultural Psychiatry &amp; Medical Anthropology is designed as a textbook for a rapidly expanding new field of interdisiplinary study. As well as a broad overview of the central themes and issues, the book brings together the key writings in the field since the late 19th century. Each of the extracts has been selected to ilustrate issues of contemprary interest - these include medicine and magic, sexuality, death, pyschosis, anxiety, symbols, mental disease, intoxicants, the status of normality, hysteria and suicide.

Cultural Psychiatry and Medical Anthropology: An Introduction and Reader

Dein, Simon

Literature & Fiction

Athlone Pr

The Earth People of Trinidad draw on Yoruba sources to assert the particular power of female creativity. This first new Caribbean religion since Rastafari is led by a woman, Mother Earth, whose ideas emerged from her experience of a cerebral disease. The author, Roland Littlewood, who is both a psychiatrist and a social anthropologist, offers a nonreductionist view on the relationship between pathology and creativity, between the natural and the human sciences.

Pathology and Identity: The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 90)

Cambridge University Press

Psychiatry conventionally regards spirit possession and dramatic healing rituals in non-European societies as forms of abnormality if not mental illness. Roland Littlewood, a psychiatrist and social anthropologist, argues that it is necessary to take into account both social process and personal cultural meaning when explaining psychiatric illness and "deviant" behavior. Littlewood brings anthropological and psychiatric literature to bear on case studies of self-poisoning, agoraphobia, hysteria, chronic fatigue syndrome, post-traumatic stress, male sexual violence, and eating disorders. He contends that Western psychiatric illnesses are themselves "possession states"―patterns by which individual agency is displaced through an idiom of alien intrusion whether of a spirit or a disease.
Pathologies of the West is simultaneously an original approach to psychiatric illness in its international perspective and an introduction to recent developments in the social anthropology of medicine. It examines critically the relevance of phenomenological, structural, and ethological approaches to understanding extreme personal experience. Littlewood argues that anthropology must not simply provide a cultural alternative to sociological critiques of medicine―psychiatry itself should take into account the ways in which cultural values are acted out by individuals.

Pathologies of the West: An Anthropology of Mental Illness in Europe and America

Cornell University Press

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