Indigenous Knowledge and Mental Health: A Global Perspective

Abstract

Indigenous Knowledge and Mental Health -- Foreword -- Endorsement -- Introduction -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the Artist -- Part I: Genocide, Exile and Trauma -- Yazidi Mental Health and Collective Trauma and Terror -- Who Are the Yazidis? -- Systematic Destruction of the Yazidi Community -- Mental Health of the Yazidi Population -- Transgenerational Traumata and the Consequences for the Current Generation -- Preconditions for Mental Health Treatment -- Behavioural Case History -- Forming Relationships -- Mental Health Treatment -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- The Health and Well-Being of Indigenous Khmer Displaced and in Exile -- Setting the Stage -- Shared Life Experience of the Khmer War Cohort -- Context 1: The Village in the Lowlands -- Context 2: War Experience -- Context 3: The Refugee Camps -- Context 4: The Suburbs on the Hills -- Contexts for Indigenous Cultural and Religious Practices -- How Did They Manage? -- How Did They Answer and How to Understand Those Answers -- Shared Stories -- In Their Own Words -- Self-Reliance [dto su/prang praeng] -- Social Solidarity -- Religious Worldview: Beliefs and Practices -- Retroduction -- How Do They Guard and Maintain Their Mental Health Today? Present Contexts for Indigenous Practices in Norway -- References -- The Psychology of Mussar: Cultural Safety as a Verb -- Cultural Framework -- Rationale -- Psychology of Exile -- Aljamiado Literature in Tenth-Century Spain as Über Text? -- Mussar as Literature, Philosophy, Spiritual Movement, and Practice -- Case Study with a Mussar Application: Alpha and Omega -- Conflicted Cultural Values -- Duties of the Heart in Healing Clinical Work -- References -- Part II: The Land and Healing -- Healing Practices and Rituals of the Forest-Dwelling Rabha Community in Assam, India -- The Forest-Dwelling Rabha Community.