Laurence J. Kirmayer
Jaswant Guzder • Cécile Rousseau
Editors

2014

Encountering the Other
in Mental Health Care

Cultural diversity poses many challenges to mental health care. These stem from the ways that culture configures illness experience, contributing to the causes and mechanisms of psychopathology, the modes of expressing suffering, and the strategies of coping, help seeking, healing, and recovery.