Global Psychologies Mental Health and the Global South /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fernando, Suman (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Moodley, Roy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Cross-cultural psychology.; Culture.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Psychiatry.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Global/International Culture.; Self and Identity.; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.

This book critiques our reliance on Eurocentric knowledge in the education and training of psychology and psychiatry. Chapters explore the diversity of 'constructions of the self' in non-Western cultures, examining traditional psychologies from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and Pre-Columbian...