Approaches to Cross-Cultural Psychiatry / / ed. by Jane M. Murphy, Alexander H. Leighton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Berk, Gloria,; Hughes, Charles C.,; Langner, Thomas S.,; Leighton, Alexander H.,; Leighton, Dorothea C.,; Llewellyfi Thomas, Edward,; Masterson, James F.,; Murphy, Jane M.,; Parker, Seymour,; Sasaki, Tom T.,; Savage, Charles,; Schoelly, Marie-Louise,; Sherwin, Albert C.,; Tucker, Kenneth,
• HerausgeberIn: Leighton, Alexander H.,; Murphy, Jane M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1965
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)

From specialists in several disciplines—psychiatry, general medicine, anthropology, sociology, and social work—the editors of this volume have assembled reports on a search for ways of identifying mentally ill people in other cultures and of determining what kinds of sociocultural factors influence the origin, course, and outcome of psychiatric disorders. The contributors have approached the subject through reviews of the literature, seminar discussions, and exploratory field studies carried out in Nova Scotia and among Eskimos, Navahos, and Mexicans.The book provides a methodological approach to important issues and problems in an area in which there is as yet only limited and uncertain knowledge. It will be useful to psychiatrists and epidemiologists working outside their own cultures, to psychologists and anthropologists, and as a handbook for specialists in mental health.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Biographical Notes on Contributors -- Contents -- Charts -- Figures -- Tables -- Part One. Identifying and Surveying Psychiatric Disorders -- I. Cross-cultural Psychiatry -- II. The Problem of Cross-cultural Identification of Psychiatric Disorders -- III. Native Conceptions of Psychiatric Disorder -- IV. The Use of Psychophysiological Symptoms as Indicators of Disorder among Eskimos -- V. The Possibility of Using Physiological Indicators for Detecting Psychiatric Disorder -- VI. Some Criteria of Psychiatric Disorder in Adolescents -- VII. Criteria of Psychiatric Disorder in Children -- Part Two. Assessing the Sociocultural Environment -- VIII. Social Science Concepts and Cross-cultural Methods for Psychiatric Research -- IX. The Life History in Cross-cultural Psychiatric Research -- X. Society and Sentiments in Two Contrasting Socially Disturbed Areas -- XI. Psychophysiological Symptoms and the Status of Women in Two Mexican Communities -- Concluding Note -- Index