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- Title
Navigating diagnoses: understanding mind-body relations, mental health, and stigma in Nepal.
- Authors
Kohrt, Brandon A; Harper, Ian
- Abstract
Anthropologists and psychiatrists traditionally have used the salience of a mind-body dichotomy to distinguish Western from non-Western ethnopsychologies. However, despite claims of mind-body holism in non-Western cultures, mind-body divisions are prominent in non-Western groups. In this article, we discuss three issues: the ethnopsychology of mind-body dichotomies in Nepal, the relationship between mind-body dichotomies and the hierarchy of resort in a medical pluralistic context, and, finally, the role of mind-body dichotomies in public health interventions (biomedical and psychosocial) aimed toward decreasing the stigmatization of mental illness. We assert that, by understanding mind-body relations in non-Western settings, their implications, and ways in which to reconstitute these relations in a less stigmatizing manner, medical anthropologists and mental health workers can contribute to the reduction of stigma in global mental health care.
- Publication
Culture, medicine and psychiatry, 2008, Vol 32, Issue 4, p462
- ISSN
0165-005X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11013-008-9110-6