With the spread of the coronavirus, social distancing has become a new imperative. The changes are indeed very fast-paced. While many countries are adopting various measures to control the coronavirus outbreak, some measures are tougher than others, from mere…
“What happens when psychoanalysis – born in Western Europe, having Franco-German and Anglo-American moorings, and in a largely Judeo-Christian milieu (i.e., with paradigms stemming from its own cultural tradition) – travels eastwards and meets a somewhat different cultural tradition” (Kumar,…
When new epidemics hit us, calls for infrastructural development are renewed. More investment in hospital facilities, medical staff and the development of effective protocols for disease control is clearly advisable as seen with the recent end of the Ebola outbreak…
Although yoga has the explicit aim of guiding the flows of consciousness (Hartranft 2003), it was only in the last decade, and alongside the growing public interest in the discipline, that the psychiatric field paid closer attention to yoga’s relevance…
Frau Prof. Dr. Helene Basu ist Professorin am Institut für Ethnologie in Münster und bietet seit 2007 regelmäßig Lehrveranstaltungen zur „Transkulturellen Psychiatrie“. In ihren Forschungen beschäftigt sie sich mit Behandlungen von psychischen Störungen in Indien. Dieses Interview wurde von Veronika Wolf geführt…
This three-day workshop (May 8-10, 2015) at EASTmedicine, University of Westminster, London brought together international expert physicians and scholars of Tibetan medicine – medical anthropologists, historians, ethno- and medical botanists, pharmacologists – working with and/or on Tibetan medicine, and also…