Global psychologies: mental health and the global South

This volume critiques our reliance on Eurocentric knowledge in the education and training of psychology and psychiatry.

Chapters explore the diversity of 'constructions of the self' in non-Western cultures, examining traditional psychologies from Africa, Asia, Australasia and pre-Columbian America.

The authors discuss liberation psychologies and contemporary movements in healing and psychological therapy that draw on both Western and non-Western sources of knowledge.

A central theme confronted is the importance, in a rapidly shrinking world, for knowledge systems derived from diverse cultures to be explored and disseminated equally.