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Traditional and Western Medicine: Voices from Jamaican Psychiatric Patients

Traditional and Western Medicine: Voices from Jamaican Psychiatric Patients

James Bateman, Caryl

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 9766408459
ISBN13: 9789766408459
Publisher: Univ Of The West Indies Pr
Published: Apr 19 2021
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Traditional and Western Medicine: Voices from Jamaican Psychiatric Patients is for anyone interested in broadening their perspective on alternative treatment models, particularly the use of traditional methods alongside Western biomedical techniques. Caryl James Bateman critiques the tensions that exist between conventional approaches in psychiatric treatment and highlights how these may interfere with patients' views, especially those patients who have endemic beliefs in spiritual influences on health and traditional cures and rituals, often originating from African teachings. Through the stories of six former patients who, despite receiving Western biomedical treatment, conceptualize their illness using a traditional viewpoint, James Bateman empowers the patients to tell their own stories of their personal journeys and share their lived experiences of mental illness, giving the reader a rare first-hand account of what lies beyond the label of a psychiatric diagnosis.

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