Ng¿ K¿aha

Voices and Visions in M¿ori Healing and Psychiatry
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-03380-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 532 g

Reihe: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

Nga Kuaha: Voices and Visions in Maori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of Maori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush. Wiremu explains Nga Kuaha as referring to doorways and offers entranceways into Maori knowledge about wairua (spirituality) handed down by his forebears and other Maori sources.

The authors provide historical examples of Western mystical experiences and contrasting Western psychiatric and psychological explanations of voices and visions as hallucinations. Further chapters focus on narratives and perspectives from people who have experienced voices and visions, and have had interactions with mental health services, told from multiple viewpoints; individual, whanau (family), Maori healing and psychiatry. The benefits of joint Maori healing and psychiatry approaches on wellbeing are examined. Drawing on their 18-year partnership, Wiremu and Allister highlight the harmful colonial impact of psychiatry in suppressing Maori views of voices and visions. They describe ways of working together in clinical practice to address this history of injustice and how to identify whether distressing perceptual experiences may represent Maori cultural experiences, psychiatric or psychological symptoms or all of these.

This book advocates for practices that enable genuine partnerships between Maori healers, other wairua practitioners and mental health clinicians in order to improve the mental health and spiritual care of Maori and perhaps other peoples.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Niania, Wiremu

Bush, Allister

Epston, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction  2. Tirohanga  3. Nga Topito o te Ao  4. Voices and Visions in Psychiatry  5. Egan  6. Tohu  7. Grace  8. Jake  9. Nga Kuaha  10. Huakina  Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Wiremu NiaNia, Tohunga, Turuki Health Care, Tamaki-makau-rau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Allister Bush, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Te Whare Marie, Maori Mental Health Service and Pasifika CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service), Te Whatu Ora, Porirua, Aotearoa New Zealand.

David Epston, Co-originator of Narrative Therapy, Tamaki-makau-rau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.