Travel and Movement in Clinical Psychology The World Outside the Cli
This book concerns clinical psychology, but it is most concerned with the world outside the clinic. That world—where culture, history, and economy are found—radically impacts the public’s mental health. However these worldly considerations often do not fe
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Travel and Movement in Clinical Psychology
The World Outside the Clinic
Travel and Movement in Clinical Psychology
Miraj Desai
Travel and Movement in Clinical Psychology The World Outside the Clinic
Miraj Desai Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA
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This book is dedicated to my beloved wife and fellow traveler, Usha Reena Rungoo
Foreword
I feel a strong kinship and admiration for Miraj Desai’s movement and travel in this passionate text. Desai is restless, on the move, searching for a more constructive clinical psychology. He wants his profession, his colleagues and himself, to leave the confines of the clinic and journey into the world, across geographical regions, time, cultures, and intellectual disciplines. All is connected, Desai emphasizes, and truth can be discerned through eyes that are open to that connectedness. It is natural, I believe, that as an economic practitioner I should feel that kinship. I once defined my own approach as Clinical Economics, out of my deep admiration for clinicians (especially my wife, a gifted clinical pediatrician). Clinicians must translate general truths and extens
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