Mental Health Worldwide (eBook)

Suman Fernando is Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at London Metropolitan University, UK. Before that he was Senior Lecturer at the European Centre for Migration and Social Care at the University of Kent, UK, and consultant psychiatrist in the National Health Service for over twenty years. He is active in non-governmental organizations in UK and abroad, as well as being consultant to capacity development programmes in Sri Lanka. He has written and lectured widely on mental health development. In 2011 he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Culture, Race and Mental Health by the University of Toronto, Canada.

PART I: CULTURAL HISTORY OF MADNESS, PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH 1. Culture and Globalization in Relation to Mental Health 2. Understanding Madness, Mental Illness and Mental Health 3. Medicalization of Human Problems in the West PART II: WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MAJORITY WORLD 4.Mental Health and Mental Illness in Non-Western Countries 5. Colonial Psychiatry PART III: PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR; EXPORTING PSYCHIATRY TO THE GLOBAL SOUTH 6. Medication Revolution and Emerging Discontents 7. Ethnic Problems in the West and Neo-Imperialism Abroad 8. International Politics of Mental Health and Psychiatry PART IV: DEVELOPING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 9. Modernizing Mental Health Services in the Global North 10. Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Global South 11. After-Thoughts: Power, Diagnosis and the Majority World