This book introduces key issues in understanding social and cultural factors as they relate to mental health and illness, and to a southern African understanding and construction of these categories.

This is the definitive textbook on global mental health, an emerging priority discipline within global health, which places priority on improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health for all people worldwide.

These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact ...

This book is an examination of South African mental institutions and policy from 1939-1994.

The book starts by reviewing the socio-psychological and cultural processes that contribute to stigma and providing evidence-based interventions to combat it.

... View . Cape Town : Oxford University Press . Swartz , L. and MacGregor , H. 2002 : Integrating services , marginalising patients : psychiatric patients and primary health care in South ... Culture and mental health in South Africa.

Key Features: This two-volume A-Z work, available in both print and electronic formats, includes close to 400 articles by renowned experts in their respective fields.