Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder

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Arthur Kleinman, Byron Good
University of California Press, 1985 - Medical - 535 pages
Some of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on depression. Culture and Depression presents the work of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists who examine the controversies, agreements, and conceptual and methodological problems that arise in the course of such research. A book of enormous depth and breadth of discussion, Culture and Depression enriches the cross-cultural study of emotions and mental illness and leads it in new directions. It commences with a historical study followed by a series of anthropological accounts that examine the problems that arise when depression is assessed in other cultures. This is a work of impressive scholarship which demonstrates that anthropological approaches to affect and illness raise central questions for psychiatry and psychology, and that cross-cultural studies of depression raise equally provocative questions for anthropology.

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Contents

Part I
13
1
43
2
56
Depression and the Translation of Emotional Worlds
63
from New Guinea
101
4
116
Sri Lanka
134
Charles F Keyes
153
Part III
267
10
276
An Overview
299
11
331
12
346
Dysphoric Affect
369
among Culture Depressive Experiences
429
Contributors
507

6
182
Anthropology
216
8
235
Depression and the CultureBound Syndromes
244

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