Cosmologies of Mental Health
Pentecostal Prayer Camps and Indigenous Knowledge of Healing Mental Illness in Ghana
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- ISBN 9781350463479
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
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- Méret 234x156 mm
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This open access book is based on a unique body of data on a hitherto understudied field of Pentecostal prayer camps and mental health in Ghana.
The book investigates and presents empirically grounded cases of persons with mental illness and how they deploy religious resources at prayer camps in Ghana in dealing with their illness. Particularly, the book explores perceived causes of mental illness and how such perceptions influence health seeking behaviours. The book illustrates how the perceived causes of mental illness and the healing practices found at prayer camps in Ghana that are meant to deal with the illness appeal very much to Ghanaians because they resonate with indigenous worldviews.
Through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of in-depth-interviews with persons afflicted with mental illness and practitioners, this book points out the varied ways in which prayer camps have become a source of authoritative knowledge in Ghana's medical pluralistic society, serving as an ""informal"" health sector in the provision of health care to persons with mental illnesses. It further highlights the network of relationships between prayer camps and hospitals as new ground of training in ""cultural competence"" for clinicians in their field of practice in psychiatry. The book proposes the intermediate continuum approach as a new framework or lens for examining the broader role of religion and culture in mental health care. The approach aims at providing a common ground to merge the differences in previous approaches in the studies of culture and mental health and thereby undo the tensions, conflicts, and controversies inherent in such approaches.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by -bo Akademi University.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Introduction
1. Cultural Relativism and the Akan Concept of Personhood and Well-being
2. Cultural Concept of the Person and Mental Health Care: An Akan Perspective
3. Unpacking Akan Disease Aetiologies and the Concept of Mental Illness as Sunsum Mu Yare? (Spiritual Illness)
4. The Evolution of Prayer Camps in Ghanaian Pentecostalism
5. Prayer Camps and Mental Health Research in Ghana: Identifying the Gaps
6. Perceived Aetiologies of Mental Illness and Therapeutic Interventions in Prayer Camps
7. Healing and the Management of Chronic Mental Illnesses in Prayer Camps
8. Why Prayer Camps Are Sometimes Alternatives to Psychiatric Hospitals
9. Towards Effective Intersectoral Collaboration and Decolonising of Psychiatry
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
