The ‘Africanisation’ of Psychiatry

Pringle, Yolana

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-60095-0_3

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“…36 Similar arguments were voiced earlier, in the 1960s and 1970s, in developing countries, due to the lack of funds and specialised personnel. 37 During the same period, in the developed world, the incorporation of nonexperts in mental healthcare was mobilised by ideological, not economic, considerations. Within the liberational and participatory climate of the 1960s and 1970s, and as medicine's monopoly in knowledge and expertise was increasingly criticised, 38 mental health committees were introduced in neighbourhoods, with the aim to involve the whole of the community to the handling of mental health problems, and to minimise the role of the specialists.…”

Section: Nonexperts In Mental Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

Gender and Expertise in the Mixed Economy of Mental Welfare in Greece

Kritsotaki

2024

Historein

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The late 1970s and the 1980s were a time of political and social change in Greece, following the collapse of the seven-year military dictatorship, as well as a time of rupture in mental healthcare: new approaches were being developed, including those implemented by the Society of Social Psychiatry and Mental Health, a voluntary, nonprofit scientific association, founded in 1981 (officially in 1986). This article places the initiatives undertaken by the society within the international context of postwar mental healthcare, and within the national postdictatorship framework. It uses the analytical concept of the “mixed economy of welfare”, demonstrating that the society’s work was based on the synergy between the private and the public. Furthermore, the article discusses how concepts of gender were embedded in and shaped by the work of the society in the 1980s, arguing that the society reproduced the traditional gender hierarchies of the mental health field while reworking the hierarchies within its personnel – psychiatrists and other professionals, experts and nonexperts, and, by extension, to some degree at least, men and women mental healthcare providers.

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Section: Nonexperts In Mental Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%