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The Entanglement of Culture and Psychosis
Author(s): Ingo Lambrecht (Editor), Anna Lavis
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: June 16, 2026
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 286 pages
- ISBN-10: 1032648732
- ISBN-13: 9781032648736
Book Description
Featuring contributions from a variety of international voices, this volume draws
on a range of disciplinary, practice, and experiential perspectives to offer new
understandings of relationships between culture and psychosis.
Taking neither culture nor psychosis as neatly defined, the chapters trace how
individual illness and recovery experiences, treatment paradigms, and diagnostic
categories are all culturally shaped. Together, they illustrate that paying attention
to culture is crucial to understanding the complexities of lived experiences, as well
as the workings of culture in biomedicine and psychiatry. Offering a sensitive and
multi-vocal approach to the topic, the book is an innovative, timely, and theoretically
robust contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of mental health science.
This important book will be of interest to mental health practitioners, students,
and academics across a range of disciplines, as well as those with lived experience
of psychosis.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Ingo Lambrecht is a consultant clinical psychologist in Auckland, New Zealand.
His special interests include children, psychosis, personality issues, and trauma.
He has also worked at a Māori Mental Health Service and in other leadership roles,
implementing indigenous models of care that address social inequities. He was also
privileged to undergo an intense shamanic training as a sangoma, a South African
traditional healer, as outlined in his book, Sangoma Trance States, based on his
PhD research.
Anna Lavis is an associate professor in Medical Anthropology at the University of
Birmingham, UK. Her research has two core strands: lived experiences of mental
(ill-)health and distress – notably disordered eating, self-harm, suicidality, and
psychosis – and relationships between social media and mental health. She has
published widely in social science and clinical journals and is the series editor of
the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis
(ISPS) Book Series.
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