1st Edition
The Entanglement of Culture and Psychosis Perspectives Across Disciplines and Experiences
Featuring contributions from a variety of international voices, this volume draws on a range of disciplinary, practice and experiential perspectives to offer new understandings of relationships between culture and psychosis.
Taking neither culture nor psychosis as neatly defined, the chapters trace how individual illness and recovery experiences, treatment paradigms, and diagnostic categories are all culturally shaped. Together they illustrate that paying attention to culture is crucial to understanding the complexities of lived experiences, as well as the workings of culture in biomedicine and psychiatry. Offering a sensitive and multi-vocal approach to the topic, the book is an innovative, timely and theoretically robust contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of mental health science.
This important book will be of interest to mental health practitioners, students and academics across a range of disciplines, as well as those with lived experience of psychosis.
About the editors
List of contributors
Introduction: Reflecting on the Entanglement of Culture and Psychosis
Ingo Lambrecht and Anna Lavis
Section One: From the Individual to the Cultural: Subjectivity and Experience in Context
Chapter One: Introduction to Culture and Hallucinations
T.M. Luhrmann
Reprint of Culture and Hallucinations: Overview and Future Directions
Frank Larøi, T.M. Luhrmann, Vaughan Bell,
William A. Christian Jr, Smita Deshpande, Charles Fernyhough,
Janis Jenkins and Angela Woods
Chapter Two: The Intersect between Heavy Metal Music Culture and Experiences of ‘Psychosis’
Kate Quinn and Angela Glaves
Chapter Three: Hallucinations, Delusions and Psychotic Experience in the Arab World
Justin Thomas, Mariapaola Barbato and Alaa Galadari
Chapter Four: Mysticism and Madness: A Matter of Perspective?
Marilyn Charles
Chapter Five: Visionary Reality, Culture and Psychosis: Dialogues with Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow)
David R. Kopacz and Joseph Rael
Chapter Six: Tino Rangatiratanga (Self-determination)
Mel Taitimu
Chapter Seven: Psychosis as an Extreme State: Some Reflections from an Edge
Ingo Lambrecht
Section Two: Collective Psyches: Culture, Society and Environment
Chapter Eight: Heralded Kupu o te Wairua
Rāwiri Patterson
Chapter Nine: Cultural Ruptures and their Consequences for Mental Health across Generations: The Case of Ireland
Michael O’Loughlin
Chapter Ten: Racism and me: A Poem and Reflection on the Relationship between Racism and Psychosis
Hári Sewell
Chapter Eleven: What’s in a Word – Schizophrenia or Psychosis, Vulnerability or Sensitivity, Recovery or Discovery?
Andrew Moskowitz
Chapter Twelve: Hearing Distressing Voices, Climate Change, and Moral Agency among Maasai Women of Northern Tanzania
Neely Myers
Chapter Thirteen: Freedom
Vanessa Sinclair
Section Three: Healing Systems and Recovery across Contexts
Chapter Fourteen: Mental Health and Healing in Former French African Colonies
Essosinam Ward
Chapter Fifteen: Cassandra’s Prophetic Knowledge: Trauma, Psychosis, and Culture
Johanna C. Malone
Chapter Sixteen: An Interdisciplinary Critique of Culture, Psychosis and Stigma in Singapore
Christopher Devan and Gangadharan Sathyadevan
Chapter Seventeen: Kundalini and Psychosis: A Personal Journey with Some Clinical Reflections
Balveer Sikh
Chapter Eighteen: The Othering Culture of Western Biological Psychiatry
Vanessa Beavan
Chapter Nineteen: Possession in Psychiatric Hospitals: Psychosis and Culture in Rural India
Florence Halder
Afterword: A Culture of Madness
Debra Lampshire
Index
Biography
Ingo Lambrecht is a consultant clinical psychologist in Auckland, New Zealand. His special interests include children, psychosis, personality issues, trauma. He has also worked at a Māori Mental Health Service and in other leadership roles, implementing indigenous models of care that address social inequities. He was also privileged to undergo an intense shamanic training as a sangoma, a South African traditional healer, as outlined in his book, Sangoma Trance States, based on his PhD research.
Anna Lavis is an Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research has two core strands: lived experiences of mental (ill-)health and distress - notably disordered eating, self-harm, suicidality and psychosis - and relationships between social media and mental health. She has published widely in social science and clinical journals and is the series editor of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS) Book Series.
