Mental Health and Psychiatry in Africa: An Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources on the literature of mental illness and its care in Africa provides thorough coverage of the development of psychiatry as a science on the African continent. It covers not only modern psychiatry, but also traditional methods of therapies for confronting mental illness, the "healing churches" which have sprung up mostly in the 20th century, and Islamic medicine.
Mental Health and Psychiatry in Africa is not only a useful reference tool, but also a book that can be used as a new source of understanding of transcultural psychiatry. It contains over 900 extensively annotated entries covering books and periodicals articles; a glossary of psychiatric terms; a geographic and ethnic group index; and a subject index