Ursula Read
Biographic Data
| ID | 158782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ursula Read |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ursula |
| FAMILY NAME | Read |
| SIGNATURE | READ U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pluralistic Approaches to Mental Health Care in Ghana
In many African countries, traditional and faith healers are popular options for treating mental health problems. But there are serious concerns about healers engaging in potential human rights abuses. Collaboration between medical professionals and healers has long been proposed to address gaps in mental health services and promote culturally valued care while preventing such abuses. Ghana has pioneered this approach through policy innovations t…
Black Skin, White Coats
This volume is a further contribution to a small but significant number of historical works on the theme of colonialism and psychiatry in sub-Saharan Africa, notably by Megan Vaughan (1991), Josh M
I want the one that will heal me completely so it won't come back again
This paper considers responses to treatment with antipsychotics by people with mental illness and their families in rural Ghana, drawing on an anthropological study of family experiences and help seeking for mental illness. Despite a perception among health workers that there was little popular awareness of biomedical treatment for mental disorders, psychiatric services had been used by almost all informants. However, in many cases antipsychotic …
Spirituality and psychiatry, edited by Chris C.H. Cook, Andrew Powell and Andrew Sims
I want the one that will heal me completely so it won't come back again
This paper considers responses to treatment with antipsychotics by people with mental illness and their families in rural Ghana, drawing on an anthropological study of family experiences and help seeking for mental illness. Despite a perception among health workers that there was little popular awareness of biomedical treatment for mental disorders, psychiatric services had been used by almost all informants. However, in many cases antipsychotic …
Spirituality and psychiatry, edited by Chris C.H. Cook, Andrew Powell and Andrew Sims
I want the one that will heal me completely so it won't come back again
This paper considers responses to treatment with antipsychotics by people with mental illness and their families in rural Ghana, drawing on an anthropological study of family experiences and help seeking for mental illness. Despite a perception among health workers that there was little popular awareness of biomedical treatment for mental disorders, psychiatric services had been used by almost all informants. However, in many cases antipsychotic …
Black Skin, White Coats
This volume is a further contribution to a small but significant number of historical works on the theme of colonialism and psychiatry in sub-Saharan Africa, notably by Megan Vaughan (1991), Josh M
Pluralistic Approaches to Mental Health Care in Ghana
In many African countries, traditional and faith healers are popular options for treating mental health problems. But there are serious concerns about healers engaging in potential human rights abuses. Collaboration between medical professionals and healers has long been proposed to address gaps in mental health services and promote culturally valued care while preventing such abuses. Ghana has pioneered this approach through policy innovations t…
Mental Health Treatment and Access (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Mental health (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Acknowledgement (1 works) · Antipsychotic (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works)