Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health20 Touko

Faith, Culture, and Coercion: An Interview with Cultural Psychiatrist G. Eric Jarvis

Eric Jarvis is a Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University whose work brings attention to areas often overlooked in mainstream psychiatry, including religion, coercion, the social determinants of psychosis, and culture. He directs the Cultural Consultation Service, the First Episode Psychosis Program, and the Culture and Psychosis Working Group at the Jewish General Hospital, and is Editor-in-Chief of Transcultural Psychiatry. His research looks closely at how religious belief, spiritual practice, moral worlds, language, migration, racism, and social context shape how people experience distress, meaning, and healing.

In this conversation, we explore how faith, culture, and power shape mental health practice. We discuss Jarvis's work on religion and spirituality in cultural psychiatry, his research on culture and the social causes of psychosis, and his studies of coercion in first-episode psychosis.

We also talk about category fallacies, looping effects, and what happens when biomedical explanations of suffering collide with spiritual, familial, and community-based understandings of distress.

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A Mother's Journey Through Psychiatric Drug Harm and Healing

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Mercy, Magic, and the Medical Humanities: An Interview with Jussi Valtonen

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Anthropology, Arctic Iceland and Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Conversation With Fiona Frenzen

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27 Touko 32min

Kindling Our Inner Fire: A Residential Program Where Drug Tapering is the Norm

Beatrice Birch is the Founder and Director of Inner Fire, a residential program in rural Vermont, which is unique in one particular way. It provides support for tapering from psychiatric drugs, includ...

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