Depression And Globalization

Author : Carl Walker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387727132
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Depression and Globalization written by Carl Walker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important academic text on the political aspects of depression, specifically the relationship between globalization and depression. The text Walker reestablishes the link between mental health research and treatment, along with the political and economical influences outside the world of academic and clinical mental health. Overall, this book accomplishes the task of how closely and inextricably linked these diverse fields are and the way they operate together to produce not only a cultural representation of mental illness but influence the extent and type of mental distress in the 21st century.

Author : Harold JAMES
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674039084
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Globalization written by Harold JAMES and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalisation is here. This text provides an historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in which the globally integrated world of an earlier era broke down under the pressure of unexpected events.

Author : Ethan Watters
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416587194
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crazy Like Us written by Ethan Watters and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for? In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself: We are in the process of homogenizing the way the world goes mad. America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories of the human psyche. We export our psychopharmaceuticals packaged with the certainty that our biomedical knowledge will relieve the suffering and stigma of mental illness. We categorize disorders, thereby defining mental illness and health, and then parade these seemingly scientific certainties in front of the world. The blowback from these efforts is just now coming to light: It turns out that we have not only been changing the way the world talks about and treats mental illness -- we have been changing the mental illnesses themselves. For millennia, local beliefs in different cultures have shaped the experience of mental illness into endless varieties. Crazy Like Us documents how American interventions have discounted and worked to change those indigenous beliefs, often at a dizzying rate. Over the last decades, mental illnesses popularized in America have been spreading across the globe with the speed of contagious diseases. Watters travels from China to Tanzania to bring home the unsettling conclusion that the virus is us: As we introduce Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses, we are in fact spreading the diseases. In post-tsunami Sri Lanka, Watters reports on the Western trauma counselors who, in their rush to help, inadvertently trampled local expressions of grief, suffering, and healing. In Hong Kong, he retraces the last steps of the teenager whose death sparked an epidemic of the American version of anorexia nervosa. Watters reveals the truth about a multi-million-dollar campaign by one of the world's biggest drug companies to change the Japanese experience of depression -- literally marketing the disease along with the drug. But this book is not just about the damage we've caused in faraway places. Looking at our impact on the psyches of people in other cultures is a gut check, a way of forcing ourselves to take a fresh look at our own beliefs about mental health and healing. When we examine our assumptions from a farther shore, we begin to understand how our own culture constantly shapes and sometimes creates the mental illnesses of our time. By setting aside our role as the world's therapist, we may come to accept that we have as much to learn from other cultures' beliefs about the mind as we have to teach.

Author : S. Fernando
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137329602
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Health Worldwide written by S. Fernando and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a perceptive critique of the universalized model of psychiatry and its apparent exportation from the West to the developing world. Rooted in detailed analysis of the problems this causes, the book proposes new suggestions for advancing the field of mental health and wellbeing in a way that is ethical, sustainable and culturally sensitive.

Author : Daniel W. Drezner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199706085
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The System Worked written by Daniel W. Drezner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark. In the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Daniel W. Drezner, like so many others, looked at the smoking ruins of the global economy and wondered why global economic governance structure had failed so spectacularly, and what could be done to reform them in the future. But then a funny thing happened. As he surveyed their actions in the wake of the crash, he realized that the evidence pointed to the exact opposite conclusion: global economic governance had succeeded. In The System Worked, Drezner, a renowned political scientist and international relations expert, contends that despite the massive scale and reverberations of this latest crisis (larger, arguably, than those that precipitated the Great Depression), the global economy has bounced back remarkably well. Examining the major resuscitation efforts by the G-20 IMF, WTO, and other institutions, he shows that, thanks to the efforts of central bankers and other policymakers, the international response was sufficiently coordinated to prevent the crisis from becoming a full-fledged depression. Yet the narrative about the failure of multilateral economic institutions persists, both because the Great Recession affected powerful nations whose governments managed their own economies poorly, and because the most influential policy analysts who write the books and articles on the crisis hail from those nations. Nevertheless, Drezner argues, while it's true that the global economy is still fragile, these institutions survived the "stress test" of the financial crisis, and may have even become more resilient and valuable in the process. Bucking the conventional wisdom about the new "G-Zero World," Drezner rehabilitates the image of the much-maligned international institutions and demolishes some of the most dangerous myths about the financial crisis. The System Worked is a vital contribution to our understanding of an area where the stakes could not be higher.

Author : Vikram Patel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199920184
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Mental Health written by Vikram Patel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive textbook on global mental health, an emerging priority discipline within global health, which places priority on improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health for all people worldwide.

Author : John E. Moser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317259025
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Great Depression and the Coming of World War II written by John E. Moser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Great Depression and the Coming of World War II demonstrates the ways in which the economic crisis of the late 1920s and early 1930s helped to cause and shape the course of the Second World War. Historian John E. Moser points to the essential uniformity in the way in which the world s industrialized and industrializing nations responded to the challenge of the Depression. Among these nations, there was a move away from legislative deliberation and toward executive authority; away from free trade and toward the creation of regional trading blocs; away from the international gold standard and toward managed national currencies; away from chaotic individual liberty and toward rational regimentation; in other words, away from classical liberalism and toward some combination of corporatism, nationalism, and militarism.For all the similarities, however, there was still a great divide between two different general approaches to the economic crisis. Those countries that enjoyed easy, unchallenged access to resources and markets the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France tended to turn inward, erecting tariff walls and promoting domestic recovery at the expense of the international order. On the other hand, those nations that lacked such access Germany and Japan sought to take the necessary resources and markets by force. The interplay of these powers, then, constituted the dynamic of international relations of the 1930s: have-nots attempting to achieve self-sufficiency through aggressive means, challenging haves that were too distrustful of one another, and too preoccupied with their own domestic affairs, to work cooperatively in an effort to stop them.

Author : Peter A.G. van Bergeijk
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788973461
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deglobalization 2.0 written by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deglobalization 2.0 argues that Trump and Brexit are the symptoms, and not the causes, of a long sequence of alternating phases of globalization and deglobalization driven by increasing income inequality and the retreat from the global stage by a contested hegemon. Providing rich empirical details, Peter van Bergeijk investigates similarities and differences between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession and its aftermath of a slowdown in global trade. Providing an overview of recent findings and a discussion of contributions from several disciplines, the book investigates scenarios for the future of the economic world order and proposes possible solutions.

Author : Charles P. Kindleberger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520055926
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World in Depression, 1929-1939 written by Charles P. Kindleberger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1986-04-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far.”—John Kenneth Galbraith

Author : Samuel O. Okpaku
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107022320
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essentials of Global Mental Health written by Samuel O. Okpaku and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines an approach to mental healthcare focused on achieving international equity in coverage, options and outcomes.