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PSYCHIATRISTS AND TRADITIONAL HEALERS
Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, UK, 2009

This book is a major Runajambi achievement.  It is the result of a joint effort of Runajambi, the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association.  The book is also a fruitful development of the International symposium "Psychiatrists and Healers: Unwitting Partners - A Challenge for Transcultural Psychiatry  in Times of Globalization," held in Quito, Ecuador, 2005 - a symposium jointly sponsored by Runajambi and the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association.  For details of our symposium click

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Mario Incayawar and Jean-François Saucier.  The Analgesic Effect of Daring Words - The Quichua Cultural Brain.  In preparation.

Mario Incayawar and Jean-François Saucier.  Pain in Remote Andean Communities – Learning from the Quichua’s (Inca) Experiences. Rural and Remote Health. In Press.

Mario Incayawar, Lise Bouchard and Sioui Maldonado Bouchard.  Living without Psychiatrists in the Andes - The Indigenous Peoples' Plight and Resilience.  Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, In press.

Mario Incayawar and Jean-François Saucier.  Exploring Pain in the  Andes  – The Ailing Idioms of the Quichua (Inca) People.  Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.  Submitted.

Mario Incayawar and Sioui Maldonado Bouchard.  The Forsaken Mental Health of the Indigenous Peoples – A Moral Case of Outrageous Exclusion in Latin America .  BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009;9:27. Free full text

Mario Incayawar.  Efficacy of Quichua Healers as Psychiatric Diagnosticians. British Journal of Psychiatry 2008;192:390-391. Free full text   

Mario Incayawar.  Psychiatric Case Identification Skills of Yachactaita (Quichua Healers of the Andes).  In Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health, Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L (eds.), London , UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Order at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Sioui Maldonado Bouchard.  South American Indigenous Knowledge of Psychotropics - The Need for Culturally Adapted Intellectual Property Rights.  In Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health, Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L (eds.), London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.   Order at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Mario Incayawar.  Future Partnerships in Global Mental Health - Foreseeing the Encounter of Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers.  In Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health, Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L (eds.), London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.   Order at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Lise Bouchard.  The Awakening of Collaboration Beetween Quichua Healers and Psychiatrists in the Andes.  In Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health, Incayawar M, Wintrob R, Bouchard L (eds.), London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.   Order at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Mario Incayawar. Indigenous Peoples of South America – Inequalities in Mental Health Care. In Textbook of Culture and Mental Health Disorder, Kamaldeep Bhui and Dinesh Bhugra (eds.) London: Arnold Publishing, 2007 Free full text

Lise Bouchard.  Pharmaceutical Anthropology. In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society, Sal Restivo (Ed). London: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Mario Incayawar.  Indigenous Knowledge - Medical Contributions of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society, Sal Restivo (Ed). London: Oxford University Press, 2005. Free full text

Mario Incayawar and Goffredo Bartocci.  Transcultural Psychiatry: perspectives on the cultural variations and the use of the dimension of the supernatural. In Advances in Psychiatry (Editor: G. N. Christodoulou) Vol II, pp 231-235. World Psychiatric Association Publications, 2006.

Mario G. Maldonado.  Are Yachactaitas (Quichua Healers) Good Diagnosticians? Transcultural Psychiatric Section, World Psychiatric Association Newsletter 2001;19(2):11-13.