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Ngā Kūaha

Name: Ngā Kūaha
ISBN: 9781040114629

Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry

Wiremu NiaNia,

Allister Bush,

David Epston,

258 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Ngā Kūaha

Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry

Wiremu NiaNia,

Allister Bush,

David Epston,

About this book

Ng? K?aha: Voices and Visions in M?ori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of M?ori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush. Wiremu explains Ng? K?aha as referring to doorways and offers entranceways into M?ori knowledge about wairua (spirituality) handed down by his forebears and other M?ori 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, wh?nau (family), M?ori healing and psychiatry. The benefits of joint M?ori 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 M?ori 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 M?ori cultural experiences, psychiatric or psychological symptoms or all of these.

This book advocates for practices that enable genuine partnerships between M?ori healers, other wairua practitioners and mental health clinicians in order to improve the mental health and spiritual care of M?ori and perhaps other peoples.

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