Description
Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction --
Theory and Method --
1. Parameters of Mental Illness and Mental Health: A Public Health Approach --
2. Some Issues in Intercultural Research on Psychopathology --
3. The Culture-bound Reactive Syndromes --
Epidemiological Studies --
4. Mental Health Surveys in Ceylon --
5. Mental Disorders in Taiwan, Fifteen Years Later: A Preliminary Report --
6. Psychiatric Epidemiological Surveys in Japan: The Problem of Case Finding --
Patient Populations --
7. Sibling Rank, Culture, and Mental Disorders --
8. Symptom Patterns and Background Characteristics of Japanese Psychiatric Patients --
9. Characterizing Differences in Psychopathology among Ethnic Groups: A Preliminary Report on Hawaii-Japanese and Mainland-American Schizophrenics --
10. Psychopathology among Hawaii's Japanese: A Comparative Study --
Community Responses --
11. A Mental Health Program at the Elementary School Level in Taiwan: A Six-year Review of the East-Gate Project --
12. The Structure of Rejecting Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill in Japan --
Local Healers --
13. Shaman and Client in Okinawa --
14. Psychiatric Study of the Shaman in Japan --
Perspectives on Psychological Processes --
15. The Psychological Function of Witchcraft Belief: The Burmese Case --
16. Cultural Values, Concept of Self, and Projection: The Burmese Case --
17. Buddhism and Some Effects on the Rearing of Children in Thailand --
18. Westernization and the Split-level Personality in the Filipino --
19. Philippine Culture, Stress, and Psychopathology --
20. Japanese Psychology, Dependency Need, and Mental Health --
21. Minority Status and Deviancy in Japan --
22. On Getting Angry in the Society Islands --
Family Organization --
23. Ego Structure in the Hindu Joint Family: Some Considerations --
24. A Preliminary View of Family and Mental Health in Urban Communist China --
Social Change --
25. Changing Perception of Neurotic Illness --
26. Sociocultural Change and Value Conflict in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Pakistan --
CONCLUSION --
27. Cultural Psychiatric Research in Asia --
28. Cultural Relativity and the Identification of Psychiatric Disorders --
29. The Family as a Strategic Focus in Cross-cultural Psychiatric Studies --
30. Mental Health Aspects of Rapid Social Change
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780824885908
9783110564150
DOI:10.1515/9780824885908
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by William Caudill, Tsung-yi Lin.