Healing Traditions

Laurence J. Kirmayer is James McGill Professor and Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University; Director of the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit of the Institute for Community and Family Psychiatry at the Jewish General Hospital, Montreal; and Co-Director of the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research. Gail Guthrie Valaskakis was Director of Research, Aboriginal Healing Foundation, Ottawa, and Co-Director of the National Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research.

• IllustrationsForewordPrefacePart 1: The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples1 The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Transformations of Identity and Community / Laurence J. Kirmayer, Caroline L. Tait, and Cori Simpson2 Mental Health and the Indigenous Peoples of Australia and New Zealand / Mason Durie, Helen Milroy, and Ernest Hunter3 Culture and Aboriginality in the Study of Mental Health / James B. Waldram4 Social Competence and Mental Health among Aboriginal Youth: An Integrative Developmental Perspective / Grace Iarocci, Rhoda Root, and Jacob A. BurackPart 2: Social Suffering: Origins and Representations5 A Colonial Double-Bind: Social and Historical Contexts of Innu Mental Health / Colin Samson6 Placing Violence against First Nations Children: The Use of Space and Place to Construct the (In)credible Violated Subject / Jo-Anne Fiske7 Narratives of Hope and Despair in Downtown Eastside Vancouver / Dara Culhane8 Suicide as a Way of Belonging: Causes and Consequences of Cluster Suicides in Aboriginal Communities / Ronald Niezen9 Disruptions in Nature, Disruptions in Society: Aboriginal Peoples of Canada and the "Making" of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / Caroline L. TaitPart 3: Resilience: Transformations of Identity and Community10 Cultural Continuity as a Moderator of Suicide Risk among Canada's First Nations / Michael J. Chandler and Christopher E. Lalonde11 The Origins of Northern Aboriginal Social Pathologies and the Quebec Cree Healing Movement / Adrian Tanner12 Toward a Recuperation of Souls and Bodies: Community Healing and the Complex Interplay of Faith and History / Naomi Adelson13 Locating the Ecocentric Self: Inuit Concepts of Mental Health and Illness / Laurence J. Kirmayer, Christopher Fletcher, and Robert Watt14 Community Wellness and Social Action in the Canadian Arctic: Collective Agency as Subjective Well-Being / Michael J. Kral and Lori IdloutPart 4: Healing and Mental Health Services15 Aboriginal Approaches to Counselling / Rod McCormick16 Respecting the Medicines: Narrating an Aboriginal Identity / Gregory M. Brass17 A Jurisdictional Tapestry and a Patchwork Quilt of Care: Aboriginal Health and Social Services in Montreal / Mary Ellen Macdonald18 Six Nations Mental Health Services: A Model of Care for Aboriginal Communities / Cornelia Wieman19 Encountering Professional Psychology: Re-Envisioning Mental Health Services for Native North America / Joseph P. Gone20 Conclusion: Healing / Invention / Tradition / Laurence J. Kirmayer, Gregory M. Brass, and Gail Guthrie ValaskakisContributorsIndex