Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and DisorderArthur Kleinman, Byron J. Good 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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987. 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 |
Contents
Depression and the CultureBound Syndromes | 244 |
Part III | 267 |
10 | 276 |
An Overview | 299 |
11 | 331 |
12 | 346 |
Dysphoric Affect | 369 |
among Culture Depressive Experiences | 429 |
Introduction to Part II | 177 |
7 | 184 |
Anthropology | 216 |
8 | 225 |
Contributors | 507 |
Author Index | 513 |
Subject Index | 521 |
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