The Cartesian Legacy : Dealing with the Medicalization Challenge
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The mental health of future adult populations can be impacted by substantially improving the mental health of children. Post-industrialisation, the Mechanistic worldview, guided by the Cartesian model (restricted to the mind-body dimensions) replaced the Organismic view of nature that celebrated the Nature-Human interdependence. Moving away from holistic and promotive approaches of traditional cultures, the current public health model rooted in rational thought was mainly focused on drug-based, clinical and therapeutic approaches. Post-colonisation, India was transformed from a primarily agrarian society to an industrialised one where the family‟ s primary function was to prepare the child for the industrial environment. Based on my clinical, research and life experience of 3 decades, the paper attempts to build a case for a movement that reclaims our knowledge systems to guide research and policy to create health models that are accessible, affordable, promotive and most importantly culturally-relevant.
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Lata Shenava
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- DOI 10.30877/IJMH.1.1.2014.15-22
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