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Mudpacks and prozac: experiencing ayurvedic, biomedical, and religious healing

By: Halliburton, Murphy
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: United Kingdom -- Routledge -- 2016Description: 231pISBN: 9781598743999Subject(s): Cultural psychiatry | Healing Social aspects | Human mechanics | Social life and customs | Manners and customs | Medicine Religious aspects | Ayurvedic | Mental Disorders | Therapy | Mental illness | Treatment | Mind-Body Relations | Medicine | Traditional medicine | India | Kerala | HistoryDDC classification: 954.83 HAL/M Summary: People seeking psychiatric healing choose from an almost dizzying array of therapies-from the medicated mud packs of Ayurveda, to the pharmacopeia of Western biomedicine, to the spiritual pathways of the world's religions. How do we choose, what do the treatments offer, and how do they cure? In Mudpacks and Prozac, Murphy Halliburton investigates the very different ways in which Ayurvedic, Western, and religious (Christian, Muslim, and Hindu) healing systems define psychiatric problems and cures. He describes people's embodied experiences of therapies that range from soothing to frightening, and explores how enduring pleasure or pain affects healing. And through evocative portraits of patients in Kerala, India-a place of incredible cultural diversity that has become a Mecca for alternative medicine-Halliburton shows how sociopolitical changes around the globe may be limiting the ways in which people seek and experience health care, with negative effects on our quality of health and quality of life
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1. Introduction

2. Three therapies of South India

3. Lives and problems

4. Experienceing the world from body to Ātman

5. Cooling mudpacks: the aesthetic quality of therapy

6. Conclusion: pleasure, health and speed

People seeking psychiatric healing choose from an almost dizzying array of therapies-from the medicated mud packs of Ayurveda, to the pharmacopeia of Western biomedicine, to the spiritual pathways of the world's religions. How do we choose, what do the treatments offer, and how do they cure? In Mudpacks and Prozac, Murphy Halliburton investigates the very different ways in which Ayurvedic, Western, and religious (Christian, Muslim, and Hindu) healing systems define psychiatric problems and cures. He describes people's embodied experiences of therapies that range from soothing to frightening, and explores how enduring pleasure or pain affects healing. And through evocative portraits of patients in Kerala, India-a place of incredible cultural diversity that has become a Mecca for alternative medicine-Halliburton shows how sociopolitical changes around the globe may be limiting the ways in which people seek and experience health care, with negative effects on our quality of health and quality of life

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