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This essay argues for an integrated, ecosocial approach to mental health theory, research and practice.
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Why is it important?
Moving beyond the neurobiological reductionism that limits current psychiatry to develop a social and cultural view grounded in embodied experience and social enactments.
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This is the concluding chapter in a book that brings together phenomenology, neuroscience and social sciences to propose a more integrative approach to psychiatry.
Laurence Kirmayer
McGill University
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This page is a summary of: Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Toward an Ecology of Mind in Health and Illness, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9781139424745.027.
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