Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism

The Aesthetics of Healing

Helmar Kurz (University of Münster, Germany)

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Routledge
14 June 2024

Series: Explorations in Mental Health

This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients’ health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry.

Comparative chapters document and critically assess the affective arrangements of Spiritist spaces in Brazil and Germany and how practices contribute to healing and the diversification of a globally circulating mental health agenda. The book addresses the human experience within Spiritist psychiatric clinics and affiliated Spiritist centers in Brazil, which in migratory contexts also have connections to Germany. Chapters interrogate the spaces where people inside and outside Brazil engage in implementing Spiritist practices in mental healthcare, introducing the Aesthetics of Healing as a conceptual tool to understand interactions between religion and medicine more broadly.

Establishing a novel analytical and interdisciplinary perspective on embodied aspects of sensory experience and perception, this compelling volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students involved with mental health research, medical anthropology, Spiritualism, and cross-cultural psychology. Practitioners in the fields of transcultural psychiatry and the sociology of religion will also find the volume of use.

By: Helmar Kurz (University of Münster Germany)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781032634173
ISBN 10: 1032634170
Series: Explorations in Mental Health
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 14 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Diversification of Mental Healthcare 2. Spiritism and Mental Health 3. Healing Cooperation: Therapeutic Spaces of Brazilian Spiritism 4. Aesthetics of Healing: A Sense of Self and Other 5. Translocal Networks and Politics of Care 6. Conclusion: Voices of Good Sense

Helmar Kurz is a Lecturer and Researcher in Medical Anthropology and Transcultural Psychiatry, currently associated with the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Münster, Germany.