Book review: Neurobiology of mental illness, Madness and memory: The discovery of prions – A new biological principle of disease, Psychiatry and heart disease: The mind, brain and heart, The hormone factor in mental health: Bridging the mind-body gap

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-105
Author(s):  
Martin Guha
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Biological Principle ◽  
The Mind

scholarly journals The Impact of Cultural Values, Family Involvement and Health Services on Mental Health and Mental Illness

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-126
Author(s):  
Anastasia Tarnovetskaia ◽  
Linda Hopper Cook
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Asian Indian ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Willingness To Seek Help ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Impact

This paper explores the impact of cultural values, the role of the family, access to and usage of culturally acceptable health services for three distinct Canadian cultural groups. Specifically the paper examines the mind/body/spirit connection, the cultural impact of formal or informal social support, as well as access and willingness to seek help in the context of mental health among Canadian Aboriginals, Chinese and Asian Indian cultures. Three diseases that have been documented only within Canadian Aboriginal, Chinese and Asian Indian cultures are also examined. Through using examples from three separate and very distinct cultures, this paper hopes to foster a greater cross-cultural understanding of mental health and mental illness.

The Psychological Aftereffects of Racialized Sexual Violence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cathy McDaniels-Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
Antebellum South ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
After Effects ◽  
Runaway Slaves ◽  
The Mind

This chapter examines the psychological after effects of racialized sexual violence. Although few formal nineteenth-century records of mental illness, mental instability, or depression exist, written and oral slave narratives recount how “the entire life of the slave was hedged about with rules and regulations.” Samuel Cartwright, a well-known physician in the antebellum South, had a psychiatric explanation for runaway slaves, diagnosing them in 1851 as suffering from “drapetomania.” Classified as “a disease of the mind,” Cartwright defined drapetomania as a treatable and preventable condition that caused “negroes to run away.” Cartwright's published work established the foundation for “racism's historic impact” on black mental health. Indeed, Cartwright's pseudo-science, a potent mix of religion, pro-slavery politics, and medicine, forged a powerful connection between mental illness and race continued by subsequent generations of physicians and psychologists.

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