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Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy

Tātaihono – Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry

By: Wiremu NiaNia,Allister Bush,David Epston

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Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy

Tātaihono – Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry

By: Wiremu NiaNia,Allister Bush,David Epston

This book examines a collaboration between traditional Māori healing and clinical psychiatry. Comprised of transcribed interviews and detailed meditations on practice, it demonstrates how bicultural partnership frameworks can augment mental health treatment by balancing local imperatives with sound and careful psychiatric care. In the first chapter, Māori healer Wiremu NiaNia outlines the key concepts that underpin his worldview and work. He then discusses the social, historical, and cultural context of his relationship with Allister Bush, a child and adolescent psychiatrist. The main body of the book comprises chapters that each recount the story of one young person and their family’s experience of Māori healing from three or more points of view: those of the psychiatrist, the Māori healer and the young person and other family members who participated in and experienced the healing. With a foreword by Sir Mason Durie, this book is essential reading for psychologists, social workers, nurses, therapists, psychiatrists, and students interested in bicultural studies.

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Routledge

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1315386402

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9781315386409

Ngā Kūaha

Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry

By: Wiremu NiaNia,Allister Bush,David Epston

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Ngā Kūaha

Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry

By: Wiremu NiaNia,Allister Bush,David Epston

Ngā Kūaha: Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of Māori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush. Wiremu explains Ngā Kūaha as referring to doorways and offers entranceways into Māori knowledge about wairua (spirituality) handed down by his forebears and other Māori sources. The authors provide historical examples of Western mystical experiences and contrasting Western psychiatric and psychological explanations of voices and visions as hallucinations. Further chapters focus on narratives and perspectives from people who have experienced voices and visions, and have had interactions with mental health services, told from multiple viewpoints; individual, whānau (family), Māori healing and psychiatry. The benefits of joint Māori healing and psychiatry approaches on wellbeing are examined. Drawing on their 18-year partnership, Wiremu and Allister highlight the harmful colonial impact of psychiatry in suppressing Māori views of voices and visions. They describe ways of working together in clinical practice to address this history of injustice and how to identify whether distressing perceptual experiences may represent Māori cultural experiences, psychiatric or psychological symptoms or all of these. This book advocates for practices that enable genuine partnerships between Māori healers, other wairua practitioners and mental health clinicians in order to improve the mental health and spiritual care of Māori and perhaps other peoples.

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285

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Taylor & Francis

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1040114628

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9781040114629

The Sword and the Pen

Six decades on the political frontier

By: Allister Sparks

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The Sword and the Pen

Six decades on the political frontier

By: Allister Sparks

Allister Sparks joined his first newspaper at age 17 and was pitched headlong into the vortex of South Africa's stormy politi. His autobiography, The Sword and the Pen: Six decades on the political frontier, is the story of how as a journalist he watched and chronicled and participated in his country's unfolding drama for over half a century, covering events from the premiership of DF Malan to the presidency of Jacob Zuma, and witnessing at close range the rise and fall of apartheid and the rise and crisis of the new South Africa. In trenchant prose, Sparks has written a remarkable account of both a life lived to its fullest capacity as well as the surrounding narrative of South Africa from the birth of apartheid, the rise of political opposition, the dawn of democracy, right through to the crisis being experienced today. 'Anyone who tries to understand what is happening in South Africa today without first digesting Allister Sparks' lucid, sensitive and comprehensive exploration of the country's multi-faceted mind, does so at his own peril.' - André Brink, on The Mind of South Africa 'His special strength is a writing talent which combines precise reportage with shrewd analysis and unusual stamina ...' - The Observer, on Tomorrow is Another Country

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693

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Jonathan Ball Publishers

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1868425606

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9781868425600

Chasing the Light

The Cloud Cult Story

By: Mark Allister

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Chasing the Light

The Cloud Cult Story

By: Mark Allister

“Cloud Cult’s grand, unkempt indie rock is at once jam band, emo, and avant-garde. Their songs, born out of personal tragedy, are otherworldly lessons in being human.” —Pitchfork During the past decade, Minnesota-grown band Cloud Cult has become one of the most inspirational indie bands, with a deeply devoted fan base and an approach to music and the environment that is hard not to admire. Beyond a musical biography, Chasing the Light tells the story of the heartbreaking yet affirming journey of lead singer and songwriter Craig Minowa and delves into the career of the band known by music lovers as the least cynical and most idealistic band in the country. Tracing Cloud Cult’s rise to critical acclaim, author Mark Allister details the band’s defining moments, beginning with the death of Craig and Connie Minowa’s two-year-old son and the hundreds of songs that grew out of the tragic loss. Allister describes the band’s unique philosophy and principles, including how Minowa created a zero carbon footprint for the band’s recording and touring, adopting DIY and green-sustainable practices well before the ideas became mainstream. Allister also presents a first-person account of a day in the life of a quintessential indie band and conveys the immense emotional impact of Cloud Cult’s albums and live shows. Described by a fan in the book as “the anthem for the soul searcher in us all,” Cloud Cult’s music and message are both stirring and sincere. Featuring rarely seen photos from Cloud Cult’s history and passionate testimonials by fans, Chasing the Light is a testament to the profound influence one band’s personal evolution can have on its followers and on indie rock aficionados in search of beauty, meaning, and redemption.

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U of Minnesota Press

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145294332X

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9781452943329

Beyond the Miracle

Inside the New South Africa

By: Allister Sparks

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Beyond the Miracle

Inside the New South Africa

By: Allister Sparks

In Sparks' third book on South Africa, he writes about the outcomes and continuing struggles of a post-Mandela elected government. The democracy faces a widening gap between rich and poor, continued racial and ethnic tensions, and conflicts with other countries such the Congo and Zimbabwe. He describes it as a land where the First and Third World meet, with examples that are important to other countries facing the same challenges.

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412

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University of Chicago Press

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0226768589

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9780226768588

Tomorrow Is Another Country

By: Alliste Sparks,Allister Spakrs

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Tomorrow Is Another Country

By: Alliste Sparks,Allister Spakrs

Tomorrow is Another Country celebrates the miraculous social, moral and political transformation in South Africa signaled by the death of apartheid. For the first time, the true events which shaped history are revealed in this fascinating account. A drama hidden behind official world coverage, which stretches back to the four years before Nelson Mandela was released from jail in February 1990. Allister Sparks, South Africa's award-winning journalist, tells an extraordinary story of secret meetings between leading government parties, their political prisoners and the outlawed opposition - a dangerous, bloody political conflict which led to the historic election of 1994.

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Random House

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1448135001

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9781448135004

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow

Nature Writing and Autobiography

By: Mark Christopher Allister

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Refiguring the Map of Sorrow

Nature Writing and Autobiography

By: Mark Christopher Allister

Allister (English, St. Olaf College) examines works by six authors which fuse autobiography, literary nonfiction, and environmental literature into a distinct form of "grief narrative." Each of these authors "... begins in depression that shadows grief; each comes to put an end to depression, to move through mourning, by turning observations and stories of the external world into a narrative that heals." The six works featured are Sue Hubbell's A Country Year, Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge, Bill Barich's Laughing in the Hills, William Least Heat-Moons' Blue Highways, Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard, and Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Virginia Press

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0813920647

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9780813920641

Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy

Tātaihono – Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry

By: Wiremu NiaNia,Allister Bush,David Epston

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Tātaihono – Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry

By: Wiremu NiaNia,Allister Bush,David Epston

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Taylor & Francis

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1315386410

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9781315386416

Book's by Allister Bush

Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy

Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy

Ngā Kūaha

Ngā Kūaha

The Sword and the Pen

The Sword and the Pen

Chasing the Light

Chasing the Light

Beyond the Miracle

Beyond the Miracle

Tomorrow Is Another Country

Tomorrow Is Another Country

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow

Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy

Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy

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