The Routledge international handbook of race, culture and mental health

"This handbook presents a thorough examination of the intricate interplay of race, ethnicity, and culture in mental health - historical origins, subsequent transformations, and the discourses generated from past and present mental health and wellness practices. The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Ethnicity and Culture in Mental Health is an essential resource for students, researchers, and professionals alike as it addresses the complexity of mental health issues from a critical, global perspective"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Editors' biographies -- Contributors' biographies -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- De-centering a current global mental health paradigm -- How the book is organized -- Part A: Coloniality, globalization, and mental health -- Part B: Race and culture in mental health practices -- Part C: Culture and multiple identities in mental health -- Part D: Religion and healing in mental health -- Part E: Special populations and culture in mental health -- Part F: Culture and mental health in a global context -- Part G: Indigenous and traditional healing in mental health -- References -- Part A Coloniality, globalization, and mental health -- 1 Configurations of race and culture in mental health -- Configuring race and culture -- Critical race theory -- Developing a CRT perspective: Race, culture, and mental health -- The permanence of racism -- Liberalist ideologies -- White dominance -- Interest convergence -- The value of counter-narratives -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Coloniality, indigeneity, and mental health -- Critique of Western explanatory models and conceptualizations of mental illness -- Post-colonial theory and indigenous mental health -- A new historicity -- Psychiatry after colonial withdrawal -- Different (post)colonial mental health contexts -- Transcending the colonizer-colonized dialectic -- Writing to transgress -- Settler colonial studies and the indigeneity/mental health interface -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 A postcolonial critique of mental health: Empire and psychiatric expansionism -- Postcolonial theory and mental health -- The official narrative of Western psychiatry in the Global South -- A postcolonial critique -- Conclusion -- References.