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Alternative routes to healing in Bangladesh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Michael Radford
Michael Radford*
Affiliation:
Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Trust; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Birmingham Medical School
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The mission to find ‘the secret of the village’ is one attraction of engaging in mental health services in Bangladesh. Over the last 15 years much attention in world psychiatry has been given to the fairly robust finding that the prognosis of people with established and severe mental illness is better in ‘developing countries’ than in ‘developed’ ones (e.g. World Health Organization, 1979; Leff et al, 1990; Jablensky et al, 1992). Earlier assumptions that ‘developing’ is a simple variable were almost certainly a result of racist ignorance (Kulhara, 1994). Developing countries are not homogeneous. The variation in mental health outcomes seems to be clearer in more remote villages and tribal areas (Chatterjee et al, 2003), especially those that have less contact with Western (colonial) models of psychiatry and ways of life. More studies on this topic across a wider range of rural and urban settings would have much to offer. Is there something poisonous that comes with lots of expensive services? Or is there something missing?

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Thematic paper – Traditional medicines in psychiatry
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International Psychiatry , Volume 2 , Issue 8 , April 2005 , pp. 5 - 7
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