This book uses engaging narratives to illustrate that mental illnesses are not only problems individuals face but problems that need to be understood and treated globally at the social and cultural levels.

FOREWORD, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, INTRODUCTION: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Mental Health, 1. Historical Background: Medical Anthropology and Global Mental Health, 2. Anthropological Methods in Global Mental Health Research, PART I: SOCIAL AND STRUCTURAL ORIGINS OFMENTAL ILLNESS IN GLOBAL CONTEXT, 3. Water, Worry, and Doña Paloma: Why Water Security is Fundamental to Global Mental Health, 4. Life in Transit: Mental Health, Temporality, and Urban Displacement for Iraqi Refugees, 5. Reconnecting Hope: Khat Consumption, Time, and Mental Well-Being among Unemployed Young Men in Jimma, Ethiopia, 6. The Greater Good: Surviving Sexual Violence for Schooling, 7. Grandmothers, Children, and Intergenerational Distress in Nicaraguan Transnational Families, 8. Addiction in Colombia: Local Lives, Broader Lessons, PART II: TREATMENT APPROACHES AND ACCESS TO CARE IN LOW- AND HIGH-RESOURCE SETTINGS, 9. Life "Under the Wire": Perceived Discrimination and Mental Health of Haitian Migrants in the Dominican Republic, 10. Festive Fighting and Forgiving: Ritual and Resilience among Indigenous Indian "Conservation Refugees", 11. Who Belongs in a Psychiatric Hospital? Post-Socialist Romania in the Age of Globalizing Psychiatry, 12. The "Cost" of Health Care: Poverty, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrants in the United States, 13. The Few, the Proud: Women Combat Veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the United States, 14. Cultural Competence and Its Discontents: Reflections on a Mandatory Course for Psychiatry Residents, PART III: TASK-SHARING AND ALTERNATIVE CAREMODELS, 15. People, Praxis, and Power in Global Mental Health: Anthropology and the Experience Gap, 16. "Thinking Too Much" in the Central Plateau: An Apprenticeship Approach to Treating Local Distress in Haiti, 17. Task-Shifting in Global Health: Mental Health Implications for Community Health Workers and Volunteers, 18. "We Can't Find This Spirit of Help": Mental Health, Social Issues, and Community Home-Based Care Providers in Central Mozambique, 19. Shared Humanity among Nonspecialist Peer Care Providers for Persons Living with Psychosis: Implications for Global Mental Health, CONCLUSION: A Road Map for Anthropology and Global Mental Health, INDEX, CONTRIBUTORS