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Anthropology and Mental Health : Setting a New Course.
Title:
Anthropology and Mental Health : Setting a New Course.
Author:
Westermeyer, Joseph.
ISBN:
9783110819083
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (351 pages)
Series:
World Anthropology
Contents:
General Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Preface -- 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 (A Summary) -- 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 Antecedants 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 (A Summary) -- 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 in 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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