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Sharon Alane Abramowitz examine how humanitarian healthcare dealt with mental health and psychiatry during Liberia's turbulent postwar transition, looking closely at the ways mental health and psychosocial interventions worked to manage trauma and produce postwar peace.

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"A significant contribution to the literature on postwar West Africa as well as to the growing literature on mental health in medical anthropology." * Danny Hoffman, University of Washington *

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War
Chapter 2. Clusters, Coordination, and Health Sector Transitions
Chapter 3. Trauma and the New Normal
Chapter 4. Individual Interventions
Chapter 5. The GBV Proxy
Chapter 6. Ex-Combatant Rehabilitation
Chapter 7. Redemption Time
Chapter 8. The Healers
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780812246261, 978-0812246261
      ISBN10: 0812246268

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Sharon Alane Abramowitz examine how humanitarian healthcare dealt with mental health and psychiatry during Liberia's turbulent postwar transition, looking closely at the ways mental health and psychosocial interventions worked to manage trauma and produce postwar peace.

      Trade Review
      "A significant contribution to the literature on postwar West Africa as well as to the growing literature on mental health in medical anthropology." * Danny Hoffman, University of Washington *

      Table of Contents

      List of Abbreviations
      Chapter 1. Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War
      Chapter 2. Clusters, Coordination, and Health Sector Transitions
      Chapter 3. Trauma and the New Normal
      Chapter 4. Individual Interventions
      Chapter 5. The GBV Proxy
      Chapter 6. Ex-Combatant Rehabilitation
      Chapter 7. Redemption Time
      Chapter 8. The Healers
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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