1st Edition
Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing
By Helmar Kurz
Copyright 2024
198 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients’ health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry.
Comparative chapters document and critically assess the affective arrangements of Spiritist spaces in Brazil and Germany and how practices contribute to healing and the diversification of a... Read more
1. Introduction: Diversification of Mental Healthcare
2. Spiritism and Mental Health
3. Healing Cooperation: Therapeutic Spaces of Brazilian Spiritism
4. Aesthetics of Healing: A Sense of Self and Other
5. Translocal Networks and Politics of Care
6. Conclusion: Voices of Good Sense
Biography
Helmar Kurz is a Lecturer and Researcher in Medical Anthropology and Transcultural Psychiatry, currently associated with the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Münster, Germany.
