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1 online resource (461 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the Enlarged Edition; Foreword; Acknowledgments; PART I . SOCIAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS OF MENTAL ILLNESS; Introduction; 1 Methodological Considerations in Social Psychiatry; Relationship of Epidemiology and Etiology in the Study of Mental Illness; The Incidence and Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders; 2 The Dimensions of Culture and Human Values; Culture and Personality as Related Systems: Multiple Causation; Variations in Culture and Psycho pathology; Positive Emphases of the Biosocial Position |
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PART II. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CULTURES AND PEOPLES3 The Psychology of Culture; 4 Culture and Psychiatry; PART III. RESEARCH DESIGNS; 5 Theory and Direction in Research Designs; Cultural Evolution and the Psychology of Peoples; Anthropological and Cross-Cultural Aspects of Homosexuality; Sociocultural Roots of Emotional Illness; Social Psychiatry-Evolutionary, Existentialist, and Transcultural Findings; 6 Studies in Culture and Personality; Cultural Perspectives in Research on Schizophrenias; Cultural Definitions of Illness |
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Culture and Chronic Illness: On the Epidemiology of Diabetes Cross-CulturallySenryu Poetry as Folk and Community Expression; Cultural Dilemma of a Kibei Youth; Dilemmas of Two Puerto Rican Men; Bibliography and References; Index |
| Summary |
This brilliant and engrossing work of social synthesis, replete with profound insights, opens up new vistas on the relationship between culture and mental health. The author uses his own extensive findings and his abundant knowledge of the cross-cultural studies in psychiatry, anthropology, and sociology to demonstrate that throughout history mental disorders have been closely linked with the prevailing culture and have thus changed in kind and extent. Opler's classic Culture, Psychiatry, and Human Values has here been revised and expanded to nearly twice the size of the original work. The new materials present in greater depth the author's views on the connection between culture and mental health and broaden the perspectives of theory and research on cultural change and development, the migration of acculturating populations, and the resulting shifts in diagnostic and therapeutic problems brought about by the stresses of the modern world. By enriching a survey of cultural evolution with fertile cross-cultural comparisons and a discussion of the interaction between culture and personality, Opler adds to our knowledge of the etiology and treatment of mental illnesses in primitive societies as well as among more advanced ethnic groups and subcultures in today's metropolis. Of particular significance at a time when social and community psychiatry has assumed a major role all over the world, this pioneering work is must reading not only for students of culture and personality, psychiatrists, social scientists, and workers in community health programs, but also for the educated reader concerned about these critical problems of our day |
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Print version record |
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Culture.
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Social psychology.
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Culture
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Psychology, Social
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culture note.
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social psychology.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Social psychiatry.
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culture -- maladie mentale.
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maladie mentale -- psychiatrie sociale.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351524254 |
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1351524259 |
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