Matthew DeCloedt

Supple bodies, healthy minds: yoga, psychedelics and American mental health.

Medical Humanities March 30, 2018 Lucas Richert, Matthew DeCloedt 4 citations

Much discussion about mental health has revolved around treatment models. As interdisciplinary scholarship has shown, mental health knowledge, far from being a neutral product detached from the society that generated it, was shaped by politics, economics and culture. By drawing on case studies of yoga, religion and fitness, this article will examine the ways in which mental health...