Approaches to Cross-Cultural Psychiatry /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.)
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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

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