The Entanglement of Culture and Psychosis Perspectives Across Disciplines and Experiences

About the editors 

List of contributors  

Introduction: Reflecting on the Entanglement of Culture and Psychosis 

Ingo Lambrecht and Anna Lavis 

Section One: From the Individual to the Cultural: Subjectivity and Experience in Context 

Chapter One: Introduction to Culture and Hallucinations 

T.M. Luhrmann 

Reprint of Culture and Hallucinations: Overview and Future Directions  

Frank Larøi, T.M. Luhrmann, Vaughan Bell,  

William A. Christian Jr, Smita Deshpande, Charles Fernyhough,  

Janis Jenkins and Angela Woods  

Chapter Two: The Intersect between Heavy Metal Music Culture and Experiences of ‘Psychosis’ 

Kate Quinn and Angela Glaves 

Chapter Three: Hallucinations, Delusions and Psychotic Experience in the Arab World 

Justin Thomas, Mariapaola Barbato and Alaa Galadari 

Chapter Four: Mysticism and Madness: A Matter of Perspective? 

Marilyn Charles 

Chapter Five: Visionary Reality, Culture and Psychosis: Dialogues with Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow)   

David R. Kopacz and Joseph Rael 

Chapter Six: Tino Rangatiratanga (Self-determination) 

Mel Taitimu 

Chapter Seven: Psychosis as an Extreme State: Some Reflections from an Edge 

Ingo Lambrecht 

Section Two: Collective Psyches: Culture, Society and Environment 

Chapter Eight: Heralded Kupu o te Wairua  

Rāwiri Patterson 

Chapter Nine: Cultural Ruptures and their Consequences for Mental Health across Generations: The Case of Ireland 

Michael O’Loughlin 

Chapter Ten: Racism and me: A Poem and Reflection on the Relationship between Racism and Psychosis  

Hári Sewell  

Chapter Eleven: What’s in a Word – Schizophrenia or Psychosis, Vulnerability or Sensitivity, Recovery or Discovery? 

Andrew Moskowitz 

Chapter Twelve: Hearing Distressing Voices, Climate Change, and Moral Agency among Maasai Women of Northern Tanzania 

Neely Myers 

Chapter Thirteen: Freedom 

Vanessa Sinclair 

Section Three: Healing Systems and Recovery across Contexts 

Chapter Fourteen: Mental Health and Healing in Former French African Colonies 

Essosinam Ward 

Chapter Fifteen: Cassandra’s Prophetic Knowledge: Trauma, Psychosis, and Culture 

Johanna C. Malone 

Chapter Sixteen: An Interdisciplinary Critique of Culture, Psychosis and Stigma in Singapore   

Christopher Devan and Gangadharan Sathyadevan 

Chapter Seventeen: Kundalini and Psychosis: A Personal Journey with Some Clinical Reflections 

Balveer Sikh 

Chapter Eighteen: The Othering Culture of Western Biological Psychiatry 

Vanessa Beavan 

Chapter Nineteen: Possession in Psychiatric Hospitals: Psychosis and Culture in Rural India 

Florence Halder 

Afterword: A Culture of Madness 

Debra Lampshire 

Index 

Biography

Ingo Lambrecht is a consultant clinical psychologist in Auckland, New Zealand.
His special interests include children, psychosis, personality issues, and trauma.
He has also worked at a Māori Mental Health Service and in other leadership roles,
implementing indigenous models of care that address social inequities. He was also
privileged to undergo an intense shamanic training as a sangoma, a South African
traditional healer, as outlined in his book, Sangoma Trance States, based on his
PhD research.

Anna Lavis is an associate professor in Medical Anthropology at the University of
Birmingham, UK. Her research has two core strands: lived experiences of mental
(ill-)health and distress – notably disordered eating, self-harm, suicidality, and
psychosis – and relationships between social media and mental health. She has
published widely in social science and clinical journals and is the series editor of
the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis
(ISPS) Book Series.