| Description |
xv, 516 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Culture, illness, and healing |
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Culture, illness, and healing.
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| Contents |
Culture bound or construct bound? The syndromes and DSM-III / Charles C. Hughes -- Sorting the culture-bound syndromes / Ronald C. Simons -- Part I. Folk illnesses of psychiatric interest in which some evidence supports the hypothesis of a neurophysiological shaping factor -- A. The startle matching taxon -- Introduction / Ronald C. Simons -- The resolution of the Latah Paradox / Ronald C. Simons -- Paradox lost : the Latah problem revisited / Michael G. Kenny -- Latah II -- problems with a purely symbolic interpretation : a reply to Michael G. Kenny / Ronald C. Simons -- Shamans and Imu : among two Ainu groups -- toward a cross-cultural model of interpretation / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney -- Commentary / Charles C. Hughes -- B. The sleep paralysis taxon -- Introduction / Ronald C. Simons -- Uqamairineq and uqumanigianiq : Eskimo sleep paralysis / Joseph D. Bloom and Richard D. Gelardin -- The old hag phenomenon as sleep paralysis : a biocultural interpretation / Robert C. Ness -- Commentary / Charles C. Hughes -- Part II. Folk illnesses of psychiatric interest in which a neurophysiological shaping factor is only suspected -- A. The genital retraction taxon -- Introduction / Ronald C. Simons -- Koro -- a cultural disease / Gwee Ah Leng -- Koro in a Nigerian male patient : a case report / O.I. Ifabumuyi and G.G.C. Rwegellera -- The Koro pattern of depersonalization in an American schizophrenic patient / J. Guy Edwards -- Indigenous Koro, a genital retraction syndrome of Insular Southeast Asia : a critical review / James W. Edwards -- Commentary / Charles C. Hughes -- B. The sudden mass assult taxon -- Introduction / Ronald C. Simons -- Ethno-behaviorism and the culture-bound syndromes : the case of Amok / John E. Carr -- Sudden mass assult with grenade : an epidemic Amok form from Laos / Joseph Westermeyer -- The Amok syndrome in Papua and New Guinea / B.G. Burton-Bradley -- Amok / J. Arboleda-Florez -- Commentary / Charles C Hughes -- C. The running taxon -- Introduction / Ronald C. Simons -- Pibloktoq (Hysteria) among the Polar Eskimo : an ethnopsychiatric study / Zachary Gussow -- Grisi Siknis in Miskito culture / Philip A. Dennis -- The transformation of Arctic hysteria / Edward F. Foulks -- Commentary / Charles C. Hughes -- Part III. Folk illnesses usually listed as culture-bound psychiatric syndromes which should probably no longer be so considered -- A. The fright illness taxon -- Introduction / Ronald C. Simons -- The folk illness called Susto / Arthur J. Rubel, Carl W. O'Nell, Rolando Collado -- Saladera -- a culture-bound misfortune syndrome in the Peruvian Amazon / Marlene Dobkin De Rios -- Lanti, illness by fright among Bisayan Filipinos / Donn V. Hart -- Mogo Laya, a New Guinea fright illness / Stephen Frankel -- Commentary / Charles C. Hughes -- B. The cannibal compulsion taxon -- Introduction / Ronald C. Simons -- Windigo psychosis : the anatomy of an Emic-Etic confusion / Lou Marano -- Commentaries and replies / H.B.M. Murphy [and others] -- Commentary / Charles C. Hughes |
| Analysis |
Man Mental disorders Ethnopsychological aspects |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Culture.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Medical anthropology.
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Mental illness -- Social aspects.
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Psychiatry, Transcultural.
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Culture.
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Ethnic Groups -- psychology.
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Mental Disorders -- etiology.
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Social Environment.
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| Author |
Hughes, Charles C. (Charles Campbell)
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Simons, Ronald C.
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| LC no. |
85014613 |
| ISBN |
902771858X |
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9027718598 |
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