Independently of local knowledge systems, the misery of people who would be diagnosed as suffering from brain disorders according to ICD or DSM is undeniable, and the way they are treated in many cultures around the world fully warrants the indignation of the Harvard medical anthropologist and cross-cultural psychiatrist Arthur Kleinman (2009), who depicted the current situation as a “failure of humanity.” At the practical field level, making up for such a failure must be a top priority.
Dr. Gavin Miller is a professor at the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow.
Derek Summerfield is an honorary senior lecturer at London's Institute of Psychiatry and a member of...
Dr. Ross White, Research Director on the Doctorate of Clinical Psychology training programme at the...
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.