Cross-cultural Mental Health: Biocultural Perspectives

4 credits · Undergraduate

The intersections of mental health, biology, and culture, explored using a variety of anthropological, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Uses a variety of theories and methods across anthropology – specifically from the traditions of the biocultural, medical, and psychological sub-fields – to meticulously dissect and critically engage with issues of mental illness, psychiatry, non-Western paradigms of psychological well-being. Considers “mental health” as an amalgamation of diverse and ever-changing subjective experiences, temporally complex social and political processes, and complex interactions between neurobiology, the mind, and pluralistic cosmologies of health, illness, and life.