Emmanuel Akyeampong is Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Introduction: Culture, Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in AfricaEmmanuel Akyeampong, Allan Hill and Arthur Kleinman1. Historical Overview of Psychiatry in AfricaEmmanuel Akyeampong2. Common Mental Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Triad of Depression, Anxiety, and SomatizationVikram Patel and Dan Stein3. Schizophrenia and Psychosis in West AfricaUrsula M. Read, Victor Doku, and Ama de-Graft Aikins4. Mental Illness and Destitution in Ghana: A Social Psychological PerspectiveAma de-Graft Aikins5. Children and Adolescent Mental Health in South AfricaAlan Flisher, Andrew Dawes, Zuhayr Kafaar, Crick Lund, Katherine Sorsdahl, Bronwyn Myers, Rita Thom, and Soraya Seedat6. Some Aspects of Mental Illness in French-Speaking West AfricaRené Collignon7. Local Interpretations of Global Constructs: Women's Reports on Mental Illness in AfricaAllan G. Hill and Victoria Demenil8. One Thing Leads to Another: Sex, AIDS, and Mental Health Reform in South AfricaPamela Y. Collins9. Health Care Professional Mental Health and Well-Being in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan AfricaGiuseppe Raviola10. The Role of The Traditional Healers in Mental Health in AfricaElialiliaOkello and SegganeMusisi11. Improving Access to Psychiatric Medicines in AfricaShoba Raja, Sarah Kippen and Michael Reich12. Child Solders and Community Reconciliation in Post-War Sierra Leone: African Psychiatry in the 21st CenturyWilliam Murphy13. Using Mixed Methods to Plan and Evaluate Mental Health Programs for War-Affected Children in Sub-Saharan AfricaTheresa BetancourtContributorsIndex