Social and Cultural Psychiatry: dialogues and convergence

Authors

Manuel João Quartilho
University of Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7931-0172
Keywords: University, community, social epidemiology, suicide, epigenetics, social and cultural psychiatry, history

Synopsis

This book expresses a desire for dialogue and service to the community based on the interdisciplinary contribution of the teaching staff of the Masters in Social and Cultural Psychiatry of the FMUC. The different texts keep a relationship with psychiatry, from theoretical spaces intrinsic or extrinsic to the discipline, demonstrating that there is no health without mental health, and that there is no mental health without the social and cultural contexts that determine it.
From an area of knowledge as hybrid as social and cultural psychiatry, various themes are addressed, with contributions not only from psychiatry, but also from psychology, sociology, sexology, anthropology and theology. These themes relate directly or indirectly to individual and collective health, valuing the psychological, social and cultural dimensions of malaise and suffering.

Author Biography

Manuel João Quartilho, University of Coimbra

Manuel João Rodrigues Quartilho is an auxiliary professor of psychiatry overseeing classes in medical sociology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. He works at Coimbra University Hospitals as a graduate assistant and is an advisor for psychosomatic consultations at the Psychiatric Clinic. He is also the coordinator of the first master’s programme in cultural psychiatry, organized by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra and Coimbra University Hospitals. He wrote the book <em>Cultura, Medicina e Psiquiatria “Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry” (2001).

Psiquiatria Social e Cultural
Published
June 19, 2020

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ISBN-13 (15)
978-989-26-1928-6
doi
10.14195/978-989-26-1928-6

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