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Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing: Spiritual Interpretations of

Symptoms in Medical Practice
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As human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for the different approaches it encounters towards illness, the body, gender, mental health and death.  
 
Based upon training courses taught by the author to staff at hospitals, mental health professionals, and on degree courses, this complete resource provides an essential foundation for understanding the complex and manifold approaches to medicine and health around the world. An awareness of this diversity moreover allows healthcare professionals to better engage with their patients and offer them satisfactory care and support in the future.
Foreword. Preface. Part 1: Introduction. 1. Consensual Reality, Spirituality and Religion. 2. Culture, Nationality and Ethnicity. 3. Cultural Beliefs about Health and Illness. 4. The Human Body. 5. Beliefs about Conception and Human Identity. 6. Women's Bodies and Human Behaviour. 7. Cultural U-turns and Changing Responses to Consensus. Part 2: 8. Cultural Knowledge on Death and Dying. 9. Cultural Beliefs about Survival Beyond Death. 10. Anomalous Experiences: A. Religious and Spiritual Experiences. 11. Anomalous Experiences: B. NDE, OBE, ELE. 12. Anomalous Experiences: C. Cultural Interpretations of Mental Health. 13. Anomalous Experiences: D. Popular Uprising and Spiritual Awakening. 14. Anomalous Experiences: E. Deliberate Shifts in Consciousness. 15. Why Address Cultural Understandings and Academic Fixity?. 16. Acknowledging Dissonance as a Way Forward. 17. Towards Positive Change. Bibliography.
In seventeen neat chapters, each helpfully introduced and then summarised for clarity, the author tackles pertinent subjects including 'cultural beliefs about health and illness', 'beliefs about conception and human identity', 'women's bodies and human behaviour', and 'cultural knowledge on death and dying'. This is a worthwhile book, making an ideal companion to two College publications: 'Spirituality and Psychiatry' (Cook et al, 2009) and 'Spirituality and Narrative in Psychiatric Practice' (Cook et al, 2016). Members of the Spirituality and Psychiatry SIG will certainly find it rewarding. Others might find it surprisingly beneficial, both accessible and enlightening, too.
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