Allister Bush

Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy delves deeply into the unique and innovative partnership between traditional Māori healing and modern clinical psychiatry. Through a profound exploration of real-life case studies, this enlightening book highlights how bicultural cooperation can enhance mental health treatment by harmonising indigenous knowledge and contemporary psychiatric practices. The narrative is enriched with transcribed interviews and thoughtful reflections...

Ngā Kūaha: Voices and Visions in Māori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of Māori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush. Wiremu explains Ngā Kūaha as referring to doorways and offers entranceways into Māori knowledge about wairua (spirituality) handed down by his forebears and other Māori sources. The authors...