Mental Healthcare In Brazilian Spiritism

Author : Helmar Kurz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1032637153

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Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism by Helmar Kurz Pdf

"This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients' health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry. Comparative chapters document and critically assess the affective arrangements of Spiritist spaces in Brazil and Germany and how practices contribute to healing and the diversification of a globally circulating mental health agenda. The book addresses the human experience within Spiritist psychiatric clinics and affiliated Spiritist centers in Brazil, which in migratory contexts also have connections to Germany. Chapters interrogate the spaces where people in- and outside Brazil engage in implementing Spiritist practices in mental healthcare, introducing the aesthetics of healing as a conceptual tool to understand interactions between religion and medicine more broadly. Establishing a novel analytical and interdisciplinary perspective on embodied aspects of sensory experience and perception, this compelling volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students involved with mental health research, medical anthropology, spiritualism, and cross-cultural psychology. Practitioners in the fields of transcultural psychiatry and the sociology of religion will also find the volume of use"--

Author : Emma Bragdon
Publisher : Singing Dragon
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781848191358

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Spiritism and Mental Health by Emma Bragdon Pdf

An account of the philosophy, theory, practical applications and wider relevance of Spiritist therapies to be published in the English language. It explores how Spiritist centers and psychiatric hospitals are established and financed, with specific examples from Brazil and the USA.

Author : Helmar Kurz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781040047934

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Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing by Helmar Kurz Pdf

This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients’ health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry. Comparative chapters document and critically assess the affective arrangements of Spiritist spaces in Brazil and Germany and how practices contribute to healing and the diversification of a globally circulating mental health agenda. The book addresses the human experience within Spiritist psychiatric clinics and affiliated Spiritist centers in Brazil, which in migratory contexts also have connections to Germany. Chapters interrogate the spaces where people inside and outside Brazil engage in implementing Spiritist practices in mental healthcare, introducing the Aesthetics of Healing as a conceptual tool to understand interactions between religion and medicine more broadly. Establishing a novel analytical and interdisciplinary perspective on embodied aspects of sensory experience and perception, this compelling volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students involved with mental health research, medical anthropology, Spiritualism, and cross-cultural psychology. Practitioners in the fields of transcultural psychiatry and the sociology of religion will also find the volume of use.

Author : Manuella Meyer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580465786

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Reasoning Against Madness by Manuella Meyer Pdf

Examines the emergence of Brazilian psychiatry during a period of national regeneration, demonstrating how sociopolitical negotiations can shape psychiatric professionalization

Author : Emma Bragdon
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781456610043

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Kardec's Spiritism by Emma Bragdon Pdf

Especially of interest to those involved with healing and healthcare: The first book to describe contemporary spiritual healing centers in Brazil including a psychiatric hospital where spiritual healers collaborate with conventionally trained healthcare professionals. There are more than 12,000 of these centers in Brazil; 20-40 million Brazilians use this resource for spiritual growth, healing, and to maintain wellness. These Centers welcome people of all religions and cultures, offering effective forms of healing as a free service. The introduction to the philosophy of Spiritism is presented in a clear, easy to understand manner. The description of the methods for healing used over more than 150 years demonstrate that Brazil has developed an effective model of integrative health care. The author spent half of each year, 2001-2012, in Brazil studying these centers and hospitals. She is a psychologist, teacher, prolific author and pioneer in the area of healing and spiritual awakening. She suggests that importing components of Brazil's Spiritist Centers could help us improve our ailing healthcare system.

Author : Susan A. Lord
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781040046678

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Learning the Hard Way in Clinical Internships in Social Work and Psychology by Susan A. Lord Pdf

In this book, Susan A. Lord shares important stories and lessons from two undergraduate and two postgraduate clinical internships as colorful narratives that will augment texts in undergraduate and graduate practicum seminar classes. The chapters engage with fundamental issues, including the importance of safety and relationship-building, good supervision, the complexities of situationally determining what constitutes ethical practice, boundary-setting, suicide assessment, and professional identity development. Narratives about making mistakes, or "learning the hard way", include being robbed at gunpoint in Chicago, being stalked by a client, and sexual harassment. Each chapter concludes with a list of reflection, small group discussion, and class discussion questions designed to help the reader more deeply engage with the material on a personal, academic, and professional level. Written for students who are excited to begin their practicum experiences, this book explores how these experiences might be addressed and crucially stresses the importance of remembering that everyone is human and that clients are well-defended and resilient. A valuable resource for learning about the importance of safety, boundaries, and relationship development in any internship or practicum experience, it will appeal to students and scholars with interests in psychoanalysis, internship education, and relational psychotherapy.

Author : Emily Pierini,Alberto Groisman,Diana Espírito Santo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800738478

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Other Worlds, Other Bodies by Emily Pierini,Alberto Groisman,Diana Espírito Santo Pdf

When approaching the multiplicity of the spiritual experiences of healing, ethnographers are often presented with ideas of the existence of “other” worlds that may intersect with the so-called “material” or “physical” worlds. This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the “unknown”—be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an “other”—shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.

Author : Andrew R. Hatala,Kerstin Roger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000452433

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Spiritual, Religious, and Faith-Based Practices in Chronicity by Andrew R. Hatala,Kerstin Roger Pdf

This book explores how people draw upon spiritual, religious, or faith-based practices to support their mental wellness amidst forms of chronicity. From diverse global contexts and spiritual perspectives, this volume critically examines several chronic conditions, such as psychosis, diabetes, depression, oppressive forces of colonization and social marginalization, attacks of spirit possession, or other forms of persistent mental duress. As an inter- and transdisciplinary collection, the chapters include innovative ethnographic observations and over 300 in-depth interviews with care providers and individuals living in chronicity, analyzed primarily from the phenomenological and hermeneutic meaning-making traditions. Overall, this book depicts a modern global era in which spiritualty and religion maintain an important role in many peoples’ lives, underscoring a need for increased awareness, intersectoral collaboration, and practical training for varied care providers. This book will be of interest to scholars of religion and health, the sociology and psychology of religion, medical and psychological anthropology, religious studies, and global health studies, as well as applied health and mental health professionals in psychology, social work, physical and occupational therapy, cultural psychiatry, public health, and medicine.

Author : David J. Hess
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271040806

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Spirits and Scientists by David J. Hess Pdf

Brazilian Spiritism (espiritismo, kardecismo) is an important middle-class religious movement whose followers believe in communication with the dead via spirit mediums and in healing illnesses by means of spiritual therapies. Unlike Anglo-Saxon Spiritualists, Brazilian Spiritists count among their number a well-developed and institutionalized intellectual elite that has reinterpreted northern hemisphere parapsychology and developed its own alternative medicine and sociology of religion. As a result, the mediation between popular religion (especially Afro-Brazilian religious practices) and the orthodoxies of the universities, the state, and the medical profession. Situating Spiritist intellectual thought in what he calls a broader ideological arena, Hess examines Spiritism in the context of religion, science, political ideology, medicine, and even the social sciences. Hess challenges the legacy of French sociologist Roger Bastide, who saw in Spiritism an elitist, middle-class ideology. In the process, Spirits and Scientists provides a new approach to middle-class religious movements in Latin America.

Author : Roy Moodley,Eunjung Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351995535

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The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Culture and Mental Health by Roy Moodley,Eunjung Lee Pdf

This handbook presents a thorough examination of the intricate interplay of race, ethnicity, and culture in mental health – historical origins, subsequent transformations, and the discourses generated from past and present mental health and wellness practices. The text demonstrates how socio-cultural identities including race, gender, class, sexual orientation, disability, religion, and age intersect with clinical work in a range of settings. Case vignettes and recommendations for best practice help ground each in a clinical focus, guiding practitioners and educators to actively increase their understanding of non-Western and indigenous healing techniques, as well as their awareness of contemporary mental health theories as a product of Western culture with a particular historical and cultural perspective. The international contributors also discuss ways in which global mental health practices transcend racial, cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and political boundaries. The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Culture and Mental Health is an essential resource for students, researchers, and professionals alike as it addresses the complexity of mental health issues from a critical, global perspective.

Author : Emma Cohen,Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Comparative Cognitive Anthropology Research Group Emma Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195323351

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The Mind Possessed by Emma Cohen,Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Comparative Cognitive Anthropology Research Group Emma Cohen Pdf

Illustrated mainly with hypothetical or anecdotal examples, this book considers in detail how the psychological systems undergirding spirit concepts are activated in real-world settings and, specifically, how those concepts can give rise to trance and spirit-possession phenomena.

Author : Eugene B. Brody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Medical
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023119459

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The Lost Ones by Eugene B. Brody Pdf

Author : Emma PhD Bragdon (PhD.)
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780962096006

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Resources for Extraordinary Healing by Emma PhD Bragdon (PhD.) Pdf

Author : Emma Bragdon
Publisher : Emma Bragdon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Bipolar disorder
ISBN : 1466340835

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Resources for Extraordinary Healing by Emma Bragdon Pdf

Sixteen million Americans (5% of our population) are crippled by serious mental illness. The numbers of mentally-disabled needing supplemental income is now 6 times what it was in 1955.After a brief assessment of our profound problems in treating mental illness, the book reveals a new, more effective and less costly paradigm to diagnose and treat the causes of emotional disturbance that has been developing in Brazil. Through compelling, engaging stories of real people, it spells out this new form of integrative mental health care that emphasizes the spiritual aspects of mental illness. It describes the new forms of diagnostics and treatment in which conventional medical doctors collaborate with spiritual healers. The stories and descriptions colorfully and definitively illustrate a practical, cost-effective system, tested and developed for more than eighty years in Brazil, that can lead patients to mental health.Resources in the USA that are similar to the model of care available in Brazil are clearly described along with contact information. All information and recommendations for further learning are well organized, making this book an excellent guide and an inspiring reference for individuals wanting to recover from emotional disturbances, their families, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, healthcare providers and students of healthcare.

Author : Mark J. Curran
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781490759326

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It Happened in Brazil - Chronicle of a North American Researcher in Brazil Ii by Mark J. Curran Pdf

It Happened in Brazil: Chronicle of a North American Researcher in Brazil II is the English version of Aconteceu no Brasil: Crnica de um Pesquisador Norte - Americano II. The book is a continuation of the first volume in the series published in 2012 in both Portuguese and English: Adventures of a Gringo Researcher in Brazil in the 1960s. It continues Currans love affair with Brazil and the Brazilians and work in Brazil from 1969 to 1985; a third volume to be published in coming years will bring everything to the present. This volume deals with various researches and travel trips to Brazil, the author now professor at Arizona State University. Themes will be continued research on the Literatura de Cordel, conferences, important moments with authors of cordel and Brazilian Literature, the odyssey of publishing in Brazil, journeys to new parts of Brazil, and fine moments of tourism with wife, Keah. Among academic moments and high points will be 1973 and the First International Congress on Portuguese and Brazilian Philology in Rio de Janeiro where the author is introduced to the Luso-Brazilian Academic World and especially in 1981 when Curran took part in the 50 Years of Literature of Jorge Amado Commemoration in Salvador da Bahia. Among other memorable moments over the years was the trip with wife Keah to Brazil in 1985. The occasion was to receive a literary prize combined with new tourism to various parts of the country. Written in the spirit and style of the genre of short chronicles in Brazil, the book will comment as well on the political, economic and social scene over the years and will note the many changes in the dynamic Brazil of the late twentieth century.