UPCOMING BOOK!

PSYCHIATRISTS AND TRADITIONAL HEALERS
Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health

To be published on February 2009 by John Wiley & Sons, UK.

This book is a major Runajambi achievement.  It is the result of a joint effort of Runajambi, the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association, and the World Psychiatric Association.  The book is also a fruitful development of the International symposium "Psychiatrists and Healers: Unwitting Partners - A Challenge for Transcultural Psychiatry  in Times of Globalization," held in Quito, Ecuador, 2005 - a symposium jointly sponsored by Runajambi and the Transcultural psychiatry Section, World Psychiatric Association.  For details of our symposium click

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Mario Incayawar (2008) Efficacy of Quichua Healers as Psychiatric Diagnosticians. British Journal of Psychiatry 192:390-391.    

Mario Incayawar.  Psychiatric Case Identification Skills of Yachactaita (Quichua Healers of the Andes ).  In Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health, Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L (eds.), London , UK : John Wiley & Sons, in Press. Preorder at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Mario Incayawar.  Future Partnerships in Global Mental Health: Clinical, Research and Policy Issues.  In Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health, Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L (eds.), London, UK: John Wiley & Sons, in Press.   Preorder at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Lise Bouchard.  The Awakening of Collaboration Beetween Quichua Healers and Psychiatrists in the Andes.  In Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health, Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L (eds.), London, UK: John Wiley & Sons, in Press.   Preorder at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Mario Incayawar. Indigenous Peoples of South America – Inequalities in Mental Health Care. In Textbook of Culture and Mental Health Disorder, Kamaldeep Bhui and Dinesh Bhugra (eds.) London: Arnold Publishing, 2007

Lise Bouchard.  Pharmaceutical Anthropology. In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society, Sal Restivo (Ed). London: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Mario Incayawar. Indigenous Knowledge - Medical Contributions of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society, Sal Restivo (Ed). London: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Mario Incayawar and Goffredo Bartocci. Transcultural Psychiatry: perspectives on the cultural variations and the use of the dimension of the supernatural. In Advances in Psychiatry (Editor: G. N. Christodoulou) Vol II, pp 231-235. World Psychiatric Association Publications, 2006.

Mario G. Maldonado. Are Yachactaitas (Quichua Healers) Good Diagnosticians? Transcultural Psychiatric Section, World Psychiatric Association Newsletter 2001;19(2):11-13.