Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Culture, Mental Illness, and Psychiatric Practice in Africa -- 1 A Historical Overview of Psychiatry in Africa -- 2 Common Mental Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Triad of Depression, Anxiety, and Somatization -- 3 Schizophrenia and Psychosis in West Africa -- 4 Mental Illness and Destitution in Ghana: A Social-Psychological Perspective -- 5 Children and Adolescent Mental Health in South Africa -- 6 Some Aspects of Mental Illness in French-Speaking West Africa -- 7 Women's Self-Reported Mental Health in Accra, Ghana -- 8 One Thing Leads to Another: Sex, AIDS, and Mental Health Reform in South Africa -- 9 Health Care Professionals' Mental Health and Well-Being in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa -- 10 The Role of Traditional Healers in Mental Health Care in Africa -- 11 Improving Access to Psychiatric Medicines in Africa -- 12 Child Soldiers and Community Reconciliation in Postwar Sierra Leone: African Psychiatry in the Twenty-First Century -- 13 Using Mixed Methods to Plan and Evaluate Mental Health Programs for War-Affected Children in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.