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International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice
Drozdstoy Stoyanov • Bill Fulford Giovanni Stanghellini • Werdie Van Staden Michael TH Wong Editors
International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice Case Studies and Commentaries
Editors Drozdstoy Stoyanov Medical University Plovdiv Plovdiv, Bulgaria Giovanni Stanghellini Department of Psychological, Health & Territorial Sciences “G. D’Annunzio” University Chieti Scalo, Italy Michael TH Wong Department of Psychiatry, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China
Bill Fulford St Catherine’s College University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom Werdie Van Staden Centre for Ethics and Philosophy of Health Sciences University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa
This book is an open access publication. ISBN 978-3-030-47851-3 ISBN 978-3-030-47852-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47852-0 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface: How the Book Came About1
This book has turned out to be an exercise in its own topic. Conceived originally as no more than a merely academic exploration of the impact of cultural values on mental health, the processes of co-writing by which the book has been realised, and our experiences in working together in this
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