Mental Health Research in Asia and the Pacific / / ed. by William Caudill, Tsung-yi Lin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bulatao, Jaime,; Carstairs, G. Morris,; Caudill, William,; Chu, Hung-ming,; DeVos, George A.,; Doi, L. Takeo,; Draguns, Juris,; Gudeman, Howard,; Hsu, Chen-chin,; Jayasundera, M. G.,; Kato, Masaaki,; Katz, Martin M.,; Lebra, William P.,; Leighton, Alexander H.,; Levy, Robert I.,; Lin, Tsung-yi,; Lindemann, Erich,; Maretzki, Thomas,; Nelson, Linda D.,; Phillips, Leslie,; Rin, Hsien,; Sanborn, Kenneth,; Sangsingkeo, Phon,; Sasaki, Yuji,; Schooler, Carmi,; Sechrest, Lee,; Spiro, Melford E.,; Stoller, Alan,; Surya, N. C.,; Terashima, Shogo,; Termansen, P. E.,; Vogel, Ezra F.,; Wagatsuma, Hiroshi,; Weidman, Hazel Hitson,; Wittkower, E. C.,; Wynne, Lyman C.,; Yap, Pow Meng,; Yeh, Eng-King,; Zaidi, S. M. Hafeez,
• HerausgeberIn: Caudill, William,; Lin, Tsung-yi,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: East-West Center Press
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (503 p.)

Table of Contents

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