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Anthropology and Mental Health : Setting a New Course / ed. by Joseph Westermeyer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary SeriesPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1976Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (350 p.) : Num. figsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027979292
  • 9783110819083
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.2/04/2
LOC classification:
  • RC455.4.E8 A57 1976eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-XVI -- INTRODUCTION: Whither the Fresh Course? -- SECTION ONE: Cosmologies and Mental Health -- Introduction -- The Relationship Between Witchcraft Beliefs and Psychosomatic Illness -- Humoral Theory and Therapy in Tunisia -- SECTION TWO: Culture and Psychopathology -- Introduction -- Japanese-American Suicides in Los Angeles -- Personal Situation as a Determinant of Suicide and Its Implications for Cross-Cultural Studies -- Multiethnic Studies of Psychopathology and Normality in Hawaii -- Kifafa: A Tribal Disease in an East African Bantu Population -- SECTION THREE: Focus on Mental Health Workers -- Introduction -- Coalition of a Kali Healer and a Psychiatrist in Guyana, Mediated by an Anthropologist -- Psychiatrists and Spiritual Healers: Partners in Community Mental Health -- A Model for Training Mental Health Workers in Cross-Cultural Counseling -- Work Styles Among American Psychiatric Residents -- Historical Antecedents of Mental Health Dilemmas in America -- SECTION FOUR: Prevention of Mental Disorder -- Introduction -- Primary Prevention: A Combined Psychiatric-Anthropological Appraisal -- Breaking Ties with Deceased Spouse -- SECTION FIVE: New Theoretical Directions -- Introduction -- Rethinking Our Premises -- Development of Theoretical Models and Levels of Interpretation in Mental Health -- "Brainwashing" as Therapeutic Technique in Contemporary Canadian Indian Spirit Dancing: a Case of Theory Building -- SECTION SIX: Methods and Models -- Introduction -- A Review of Methods in Holocultural Studies in Mental Health/Illness -- Schizophrenic Graphic Expression and Tribal Art in New Guinea -- The Vectors of Changing Values: A Model for Predicting Change in Mental Deviance Rates in Developing Countries -- Animal Modeling of Psychopathology: Current Status of the Field -- The Drug Detoxification Unit as an Ecological System -- Notes from the Interface: A Commentary on the Anthropology and Mental Health Symposium -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
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I-XVI -- INTRODUCTION: Whither the Fresh Course? -- SECTION ONE: Cosmologies and Mental Health -- Introduction -- The Relationship Between Witchcraft Beliefs and Psychosomatic Illness -- Humoral Theory and Therapy in Tunisia -- SECTION TWO: Culture and Psychopathology -- Introduction -- Japanese-American Suicides in Los Angeles -- Personal Situation as a Determinant of Suicide and Its Implications for Cross-Cultural Studies -- Multiethnic Studies of Psychopathology and Normality in Hawaii -- Kifafa: A Tribal Disease in an East African Bantu Population -- SECTION THREE: Focus on Mental Health Workers -- Introduction -- Coalition of a Kali Healer and a Psychiatrist in Guyana, Mediated by an Anthropologist -- Psychiatrists and Spiritual Healers: Partners in Community Mental Health -- A Model for Training Mental Health Workers in Cross-Cultural Counseling -- Work Styles Among American Psychiatric Residents -- Historical Antecedents of Mental Health Dilemmas in America -- SECTION FOUR: Prevention of Mental Disorder -- Introduction -- Primary Prevention: A Combined Psychiatric-Anthropological Appraisal -- Breaking Ties with Deceased Spouse -- SECTION FIVE: New Theoretical Directions -- Introduction -- Rethinking Our Premises -- Development of Theoretical Models and Levels of Interpretation in Mental Health -- "Brainwashing" as Therapeutic Technique in Contemporary Canadian Indian Spirit Dancing: a Case of Theory Building -- SECTION SIX: Methods and Models -- Introduction -- A Review of Methods in Holocultural Studies in Mental Health/Illness -- Schizophrenic Graphic Expression and Tribal Art in New Guinea -- The Vectors of Changing Values: A Model for Predicting Change in Mental Deviance Rates in Developing Countries -- Animal Modeling of Psychopathology: Current Status of the Field -- The Drug Detoxification Unit as an Ecological System -- Notes from the Interface: A Commentary on the Anthropology and Mental Health Symposium -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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