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.

Table of Contents

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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- Primary Prevention: A Combined Psychiatric-Anthropological Appraisal -- Breaking Ties with Deceased Spouse -- SECTION FIVE: New Theoretical Directions -- Introduction -- 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 -- Introduction -- 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