Epidemiological research consistently reports that women experience higher rates of
depression than men. Competing biomedical, psychological and sociocultural models adopt …

Our understanding of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has increased significantly over
the last 2 decades. Although the cause of the condition is usually easy to determine in …

Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in
Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men? If …

This book seeks to deepen our understanding of the cultural aspects of human psychology.
These are aspects of psychology that originate in, are formed by, reflect, perpetuate, and …

The roots of contemporary mental health practice go back to the valorization of reason and
science ushered in by the European Enlightenment. The search for scientific accounts of the …

I argue that an activity theory—which regards emotions as interdependent and
interpenetrating with other cultural phenomena—is central for the cultural psychology of …

'An excellent book, the most objective short account I know of all the various approaches to
depression.'Anthony Storr Several years ago, Lewis Wolpert had a severe episode of …

India's National Mental Health Program (NMHP) was initiated in 1982 with the objective of
promoting community participation and accessible mental health services. A key component …

In this book we explore what has been referred to earlier as 'Power in Strange
Places'(Barker and Peck, 1987). In doing so, we have drawn on research by ourselves and …

Gender and Culture in Psychology introduces new approaches to the psychological study of
gender that bring together feminist psychology, socio-cultural psychology, discursive …