Stress and Emotional Health: Applications of Clinical Anthropology

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Western medicine, including psychiatry and psychology, has had a virtual monopoly of the health industry. This has led to economic incentives that literally keep people sick. Anthropologists, because of their holistic and comparative base, are in a unique position to apply their knowledge within clinical settings. Written for anthropologists, but useful to all clinicians, this book offers a new model for understanding health and illness, provides a review of techniques found in many cultures for reducing individual and system stress, and offers processes for recovering health and individual social balance. The author establishes a model outlining the development of emotional problems and then offers the clinical tools and techniques for helping individuals, families and groups reduce stress and retranslate traumatic or distressing events.

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JOHN A. RUSH is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Sierra College in Rocklin, California, and is a Clinical Anthropologist, Naturopathic Physician and Certified Medical Hypnotherapist. He is the author of Clinical Anthropology (Praeger, 1996).