Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tātaihono - Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry

by David Epston, Allister Bush, Wiremu Niania

Book Overview

This book examines a collaboration between traditional M?ori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound and careful psychiatric care. In the first chapter, M?ori healer Wiremu NiaNia outlines the key concepts that underpin his worldview and work. He then...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138230308
• ISBN13: 9781138230309
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"