Therapy, Ideology, and Social Change: Mental Healing in Urban Ghana

Therapy, Ideology, and Social Change: Mental Healing in Urban Ghana by Leith Mullings examines how therapeutic systems both reflect and reproduce the social relations and ideologies of their settings. Focusing on Ghana, Mullings situates indigenous psychotherapies within broader debates on the authority of Western biomedicine and the reassertion of traditional practices. She notes that all medical systems—whether biomedical or indigenous—are cultural processes that structure the meaning of ...