ISBN:
9780415883399
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (281 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Caribbean Healing Traditions : Implications for Health and Mental Health
DDC:
610.9729
Keywords:
Traditional medicine ; Caribbean Area ; History..
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Healing ; Caribbean Area ; History..
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Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric ; Caribbean Area
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
As Caribbean communities become more international, clinicians and scholars must develop new paradigms for understanding treatment preferences and perceptions of illness. Despite evidence supporting the need for culturally appropriate care and the integration of traditional healing practices into conventional health and mental health care systems, it is unclear how such integration would function since little is known about the therapeutic interventions of Caribbean healing traditions. Caribbean Healing Traditions: Implications for Health and Mental Health fills this ga
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Caribbean Healing Traditions; Title page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part I History, Philosophy, and Development of Caribbean Healing Traditions; 1 The History, Philosophy, and Transformation of Caribbean Healing Traditions; 2 The Evolution of Caribbean Traditional Healing Practices; 3 Caribbean Traditional Medicine: Legacy from the Past, Hope for the Future; 4 Herbal Medicine Practices in the Caribbean; Part II Caribbean Traditional Healing and Healers
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Obeah: Afro-Caribbean Religious Medicine Art and Healing6 Vodou Healing and Psychotherapy; 7 Sango Healers and Healing in the Caribbean; 8 La Regla De Ocha (Santería): Afro-Cuban Healing in Cuba and the Diaspora; 9 Puerto Rican Spiritism (Espiritismo): Social Context, Healing Process, and Mental Health; 10 Revival: An Indigenous Religion and Spiritual Healing Practice in Jamaica; 11 Spiritual Baptists in the Caribbean; Part III Spirituality, Religion, and Cultural Healing; 12 Christian Spirituality, Religion and Healing in the Caribbean; 13 Rastafari: Cultural Healing in the Caribbean
Description / Table of Contents:
14 Hindu Healing Traditions in the Southern Caribbean: History and Praxis15 Islamic Influence in the Caribbean: Traditional and Cultural Healing Practice; Part IV Traditional Healing and Conventional Health and Mental Health; 16 Community Mental Health in the English Speaking Caribbean; 17 Psychology, Spirituality, and Well-Being in the Caribbean; 18 Practical Magic in the US Urban Milieu: Botánicas and the Informal Networks of Healing; 19 Caribbean Traditional Healing in the Diaspora; Glossary; lndex
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