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This course will study and compare models of mental illness and treatment within Western cultures, non-Western cultures and migrating populations. Cultural notions of mental illness and healing and applicability of Western models of psychopathology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy to other cultures will be considered. The evolving role of Western psychology and psychiatry within the context of globalization of health care systems will be addressed. Topics will include: self and culture; emotions and culture; cross-cultural diagnosis; psychotherapists, traditional healers and shamans; the immimgrant as psychiatric patient; the politics of psychiatry in world health. (Same course Anthropology 445) (Offered Fall 2006.) |