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Spirit Versus Scalpel Traditional Healing and Modern Psychotherapy
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Leonore Loeb Adler, B. Runi Mukherji
Forewords by Albert Pepitone and Uwe P. Gielen
Book Code: H406
ISBN: 0-89789-406-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-406-7
248 pages, figures, tables
Bergin & Garvey
Publication: 3/30/1995
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The book can provide the reader with many gems of information... ...this text is an excellent introduction to cross-cultural psychiatry. Inner city clinics and mental health workers dealing with such problems will greatly benefit from the "introduction" which this book provides.
    —
    American Journal of Psychotherapy
Description: This is a unique presentation of systems of traditional healing from around the world. It provides information about the concept of healing from many different cultural perspectives and explores the application of these cultural perspectives to modern psychotherapeutic and health care settings. The last decade has seen a literal explosion of data that support the idea that states of mind have consistent and demonstrable effects on physical health. With examples that examine traditional and modern healing systems in many different cultures around the world, this work demonstrates that most cultures perceive illness as a dislocation of the individual from his or her communal context. The healing process is effected through contextualizing the individual in community by ritual, ceremony, trance, pilgrimage, and family practices. Traditional healing systems are shown to have particular importance relating to modern medical responses to mental illness.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Albert Pepitone
  • Foreword by Uwe P. Gielen
  • Introduction by Leonore Loeb Adler and B. Runi Mukherji
  • Concepts of Healing
  • From Hippocrates to Psychoneuroimmunology: Medicine as Art and Science by Helmut E. Adler and Leonore Loeb Adler
  • Cultural Perceptions of Life and Death by John Beatty
  • Unspoken Assumptions in Communicating about Inner States: Chinese External versus Internal by Edward H. Bendix
  • Healers and Their Methods from Around the Globe; The Traditional Healer in a Multicultural Society: The South African Experience by Dap A. Louw and Engela Pretorius
  • Oracles in Ladakh: A Personal Experience by Elan Golomb
  • Traditional Healing in India by Nihar Ranjan Mrinal, Uma Singhal Mrinal, and B. Runi Mukherji
  • A Study of Curative Options Available in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka by Suneetha S. de Silva and Willie J. Epps
  • Mesa Blanca: A Puerto Rican Healing Tradition by Angela Jorge
  • The Healing Practices of Mexican Spiritualism by Regina Spires-Robin and Peggy McGarrahan
  • Shamanism in Alaska by Margaret Fischer
  • Treatment and Training
  • Endorsing Irrational Beliefs Cross-Culturally: Clinical Implications by Mitchell W. Robin and Raymond DiGiuseppe
  • Religion versus Medicine versus Clinical Psychoanalysis or "Spirit" versus "Scalpel" versus "Castration" in a Case of Recovering Alcoholism by C. Edward Robins
  • The Role of the Referral Agent in Treatment Selection and Treatment Efficacy: A Cultural Perspective by Charles V. Callahan
  • Cultural and Psychological Influences on Mental Health Issues for Chinese Americans by Diana Chen
  • Culture and Health Care: A Review of the Literature and Suggestions for Curriculum Development and Implementation by Lisa Whitten
  • Index
  • About the Contributors
LC Card Number: 94-29715
LCC Class: BF1045
Dewey Class: 615.8
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