Chapter 4. When the Counsellors Give: Material Support and Therapeutic Agency in State-Based Psychological Counselling Services in Sri Lanka

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction. Thinking Ethnographically about Psychology 1
5. Chapter 1. Mixing Treatment Modalities: An Ethnography of Mental Healthcare Bricolage in Canada 27
6. Chapter 2. Treating Patients ‘Who Don’t Speak’: The Challenge of Treating Children with Eating Disorders in a Residential Facility in Italy 47
7. Chapter 3. More Likely Psychological? Exploring Mental Troubles and Psychology in Ouagadougou 63
8. Chapter 4. When the Counsellors Give: Material Support and Therapeutic Agency in State-Based Psychological Counselling Services in Sri Lanka 81
9. Chapter 5. In (the) Practice: Pioneering Psychotherapy in Uganda 101
10. Chapter 6. Throwing Out the Psyche: Scientific Persuasions in British Psychotherapy 115
11. Chapter 7. Encoding Wellness: On Cultures of Risk when Building Digital Mental Wellbeing Apps 135
12. Afterword. An Anthropology of Psychology in the Twenty-First Century 151
13. Index 165