Unseen

Field Notes of a Global Psychiatrist

Craig L. Katz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2024
Jenny Stanford Publishing (Verlag)
978-981-5129-42-7 (ISBN)

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Stigma still surrounds suffering from mental health problems, and in most low-resource settings in "developed" and especially the "developing" world, this prejudice is compounded by an utter lack of resources to address these problems. The class of mental health problems is the greatest source of morbidity worldwide compared to all other categories of health problems and is also the most neglected. The difference between the vast mental health needs worldwide and the scarce resources that address them is known as the "mental health gap." This book portrays this gap through the story of two men suffering from schizophrenia and clinical depression in an unnamed low-income country. At the same time, it portrays how "there" can be "anywhere" by providing glimpses of the mental health issues of a relief worker’s mother back home.

This book relies on the stories of Sam and Berko to bring alive the mental health gap and raise awareness of the all too often "unseen" presence of mental illness throughout the world, a problem that contributes to enormous suffering and disability without ever showing up on an X-ray or in blood tests, let alone in public discourse. The book aspires to educate on the mental health gap by showing rather than telling and using narrative rather than epidemiology and statistics. It will inspire mental health professionals to apply their craft outside of customary areas of mental health practice; policy makers and government planners to better allocate protections and resources to mental health problems; the public to advocate for change; and everyone to reflect on the sources of our distress and our contentment.

Craig L. Katz, is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Education, and System Design & Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA, and the founder and director of Mount Sinai’s Program in Global Mental Health. Inspired by their chance involvement in helping families following the fatal crash of Swiss Air Flight 111 in 1998, Dr. Katz and his colleagues co-founded Disaster Psychiatry Outreach (DPO), with him as its president, to utilize psychiatrists to help disaster-affected communities. This foresight later enabled DPO to organize hundreds of psychiatrists to provide support and care after 9/11. However, when DPO ventured to overseas places like post-tsunami Sri Lanka in early 2005, he was dismayed by how underserved mental health needs were even before the disasters. He decided he no longer wanted to wait for disaster to strike and founded the Mount Sinai Program in Global Mental Health to try to improve everyday access to mental health care for everyone, everywhere.

1. Sam 2. The Missionary 3. Berko 4. Sylvia 5. Sam II 6. The General Hospital 7. Into the Depths 8. Psychiatry in Motion 9. Lecture 10. Convergence 11. Orphanage 12. Connections 13. Peanut, Butter and Jelly 14. A Rose in the Garden 15. Derapy 16. Harold P. Doll 17. Story Lines 18. Sam III Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	10.10.2024
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, color; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	981-5129-42-2 / 9815129422
ISBN-13	978-981-5129-42-7 / 9789815129427
Zustand	Neuware