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22 - The Psychological Anthropology of Mental Health and Psychiatric Treatment

from Part V - Postcolonial and Political–Economic Interventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2025

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Jocelyn Lim Chua  and
Julio Villa-Palomino
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Edward Lowe
Edward Lowe
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Soka University of America
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This chapter examines the contributions of psychological anthropology and allied fields to the study of mental illness and psychiatric treatment. The chapter begins by laying out a historical overview of the study of mental disorder through four theoretical threads that have been important to psychological anthropology: culture, self and subjectivity, emotions, and institutions. The second section of the chapter explores contemporary work on mental illness and globalizing psychiatric treatment in psychological anthropology, highlighting contributions that offer new, critical attentions at a moment when concepts of mental health and treatment are increasingly constituted at the scope and scale of the global. The final section of the chapter addresses the contributions of psychological anthropology to the growing anthropological literature on psychopharmacology and associated pharmaceuticals. The chapter highlights the vibrancy of the subfield’s contributions to the study of mental illness, treatment, and recovery in diverse, often rapidly changing, world conditions.

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Mental illnesspsychiatric treatmentculture and mental illnesspolitical-economyglobalizationpsychopharmacology

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The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology , pp. 531 - 554
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Print publication year: 2025

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