Latina/o Healing Practices: Mestizo and Indigenous Perspectives

by McNeil; Brian

• ISBN13: 9780415954204
• ISBN10: 0415954207
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This edited volume focuses on the role of traditional or indigenous healers, as well as the application of traditional healing practices in contemporary counseling and therapeutic modalities with Latina/o peoples. The book offers a broad coverage of important topics, such as traditional healer's views of mental/psychological health and well-being, the use of traditional healing techniques in contemporary psychotherapy, and herbal remedies in psychiatric practice. It also discusses common factors across traditional healing methods and contemporary psychotherapies, the importance of spirituality in counseling and everyday life, the application of indigenous healing practices with Latina/o undergraduates, indigenous techniques in working with perpetrators of domestic violence, and religious healing systems and biomedical models. The book is an important reference for anyone working within the general field of mental health practice and those seeking to understand culturally relevant practice with Latina/o populations. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

An Appreciation of Dr. Michael W. Smith (1960-2006)	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Counselors and Curanderas/os-Parallels in the Healing Process	p. xvii
Mestiza/o and Indigenous Perspectives
What Is Indigenous About Being Indigenous? The Mestiza/o Experience	p. 3
Latina/o Folk Saints and Marian Devotions: Popular Religiosity and Healing	p. 29
Santeria and the Healing Process in Cuba and the United States	p. 63
Indigenous and Mestiza/o Healing Practices
The Use of Psychotropic Herbal and Natural Medicines in Latina/o and Mestiza/o Populations	p. 83
Brazil's Ultimate Healing Resource: The Power of Spirit	p. 139
La Limpia de San Lazaro as Individual and Collective Cleansing Rite	p. 175
Rese un Ave Maria y Encendi una Velita: The Use of Spirituality and Religion as a Means of Coping with Educational Experiences for Latina/o College Students	p. 195
Contemporary Aspects of Mestiza/o and Indigenous Healing Practices: Reclamation and Integration
Los Espiritus Siguen Hablando: Chicana Spiritualities	p. 223
Religious Healing and Biomedicine in Comparative Context	p. 249
Curanderismo: Religious and Spiritual Worldviews and Indigenous Healing Traditions	p. 271
Epilogue
Epilogue: Summary and Future Research and Practice Agendas	p. 303
Index	p. 315
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