Anthropology and Mental Health : : Setting a New Course / / ed. by Joseph Westermeyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: ARANETA, ENRIQUE,; BILLIG, OTTO,; BURTON-BRADLEY, Β. G.,; COWAN, JONATHAN,; DOERMANN, ELLEN,; DUBREUIL, GUY,; HARTOG, JOSEPH,; HSU, FRANCIS L. K.,; HUESSY, H. R.,; IGA, MAMORU,; JACKSON, DOUGLAS A.,; JILEK, WOLFGANG G.,; JILEK-AALL, LOUISE,; KATZ, MARTIN Μ.,; LANGROD, JOHN,; LIGHT, DONALD W.,; MEDICINE, BEATRICE,; MEYERS, FREDERICK H.,; McKINNEY, WILLIAM T.,; NAIDOO, JAMIE,; PATAKI-SCHWEIZER, K. J.,; PEDERSEN, PAUL,; RIOS, MARLENE DOBKIN DE,; ROSENBLATT, PAUL C.,; RUIZ, PEDRO,; SANBORN, KENNETH O.,; SCHAEFER, JAMES M.,; SINGER, PHILIP,; TEITELBAUM, JOEL M.,; TRIMBLE, JOSEPH E.,; WALSH, R. PATRICIA,; WESTERMEYER, JOSEPH,; WITTKOWER, ERIC D.,; YAMAMOTO, JOE,
• HerausgeberIn: Westermeyer, Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1976
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: I-XVI --; 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 --; 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 --; Coalition of a Kali Healer and a Psychiatrist in Guyana, Mediated by an Anthropologist --; 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 Antecedents of Mental Health Dilemmas in America --; SECTION FOUR: Prevention of Mental Disorder --; Primary Prevention: A Combined Psychiatric-Anthropological Appraisal --; Breaking Ties with Deceased Spouse --; SECTION FIVE: New Theoretical Directions --; 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 of Theory Building --; SECTION SIX: Methods and Models --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110819083; 9783110637922
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110819083
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Joseph Westermeyer.