Global Mental Health

Javier I. Escobar, MD is Associate Dean for global health, and professor of psychiatry and family medicine at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

• A brief review of global mental health: challenges, developments, and needs / Stanley Nkemjika, Javier I. Escobar, and Humberto MarinLooking at cultural aspects of global mental health: The culturally infused engagement model in Latin American and Asian populations / Miwa Yasui and Kathleen J. PottickThe abuse of psychiatry globally: A focus on a little-known historical example from Francoist Spain / Ethan Pearlstein and Javier I. EscobarTask-shifting strategies in Latin America: The key role of primary care health agents in mental health policy and research in northern Argentina / Maria Calvo, Gabriel de Erausquin, Mariana Figueredo Aguiar, Eduardo Padilla, and Javier I. EscobarGenetic research on chronic, severe mental disorders in the Paisa population in Latin America: A review of past and current research / Carrie E. Bearden, Carlos Lopez Jaramillo, and Javier I. EscobarA brief rejoinder and future projections / Javier I. Escobar

"This global health collection is wide-ranging topically and geographically.  New works from South America are a welcome counterbalance to available sources.  Remarkably fresh sourcebook of broad interdisciplinary interest."— Janis H. Jenkins, Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Director, Center for Global Mental Health, UCSDThis innovative book reviews what is known while telling the story of efforts to fill gaps in services and science in global mental health in Latin America and Spanish-speaking groups.  While reviewing epidemiology and services research, they describe recent issues including even political abuses, and new studies highlighting growth of this field.— Kenneth Wells, Director of UCLA Semel Institute Center for Health Services and Society