Anna Lavis – författare

Featuring contributions from a variety of international voices, this volume drawson a range of disciplinary, practice, and experiential perspectives to offer newunderstandings of relationships between culture and psychosis.

Taking neither culture nor psychosis as neatly defined, the chapters trace howindividual illness and recovery experiences, treatment paradigms, and diagnosticcategories are all culturally shaped. Together, they illustrate that paying attentionto culture is crucial to understanding the complexities of lived experiences, as wellas the workings of culture in biomedicine and psychiatry. Offering a sensitive andmulti-vocal approach to the topic, the book is an innovative, timely, and theoreticallyrobust contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of mental health science.

This important book will be of interest to mental health practitioners, students,and academics across a range of disciplines, as well as those with lived experienceof psychosis.

Featuring contributions from a variety of international voices, this volume drawson a range of disciplinary, practice, and experiential perspectives to offer newunderstandings of relationships between culture and psychosis.

Taking neither culture nor psychosis as neatly defined, the chapters trace howindividual illness and recovery experiences, treatment paradigms, and diagnosticcategories are all culturally shaped. Together, they illustrate that paying attentionto culture is crucial to understanding the complexities of lived experiences, as wellas the workings of culture in biomedicine and psychiatry. Offering a sensitive andmulti-vocal approach to the topic, the book is an innovative, timely, and theoreticallyrobust contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of mental health science.

This important book will be of interest to mental health practitioners, students,and academics across a range of disciplines, as well as those with lived experienceof psychosis.