scholarly journals Perinatal mental health around the world: a new thematic series

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
John Cox
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Secondary Care ◽  
Mental Health Field ◽  
Perinatal Mental Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Field

International multiprofessional teams in primary and secondary care have much to teach psychiatrists, researchers and service planners about the perinatal mental health field. This editorial introduces a new series of papers in BJPsych International on perinatal mental health around the world.

Planning Occupational Therapy Services in Kuwait

1996 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Busuttil
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
Mental Health Field ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Therapy Services ◽  
Health Field

The number of countries that are evaluating their rehabilitation programmes and, in the process, seeking to introduce or expand occupational therapy services is on the Increase. Kuwait is one of them and, under the auspices of the World Health Organisation, consultancy reports on occupational therapy in the mental health field have been commissioned. This article Is based on the experiences of two visits to Kuwait In the last quarter of 1994.

The Person with Schizophrenia as a Person

1994 ◽  
Vol 164 (S23) ◽  
pp. 103-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Mental Health Field ◽  
Objective Measures ◽  
Health Field ◽  
Subjective Side

In the mental health field, the attention given to the subjective side of a person's experience is grossly inadequate. The best way to reflect the subjectivity of a person may be by means of the subjectivity of another. To take account of both subjective experience and objective measures in the course of mental disorders, a new concept is needed. This may be the person's story.

Psy-science and the colonial relationship in the mental health field

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.J. Penson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Mental Health Field ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Health Field ◽  
Critical Literature

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically discuss how the psy-sciences have been, and continue to be, typified by some critics, as colonizers and are credited with Imperialistic motivations. However, rarely are these critiques developed beyond a pejorative characterisation. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews the criticisms of psychiatry as colonial and outlines the tensions in taking different frames of reference in the mental health field, before going on to suggest theoretical and research perspectives arising from postcolonial theory that might advance these critical positions more coherently and the implications of doing so. Findings – This study suggests an engagement with humanities-based methods and fields such as postcolonial scholarship. Social implications – This argument is timely, especially given recent controversies over the publication of DSM5, the scaling up agenda for mental health in the Global South and increased attention to the agenda of Big Pharma. Originality/value – Postcolonial intersections with psy-science remains a relatively undeveloped area in the critical literature.

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