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 |
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... health systems and medical care ) Includes bibliographies and index . 1. Depression , Mental - Cross - cultural studies . 2. Psychiatry , Transcultural . I. Kleinman , Arthur . II . Good , Byron . III . Series . [ DNLM : 1. Cross ...
... health systems and medical care ) Includes bibliographies and index . 1. Depression , Mental - Cross - cultural studies . 2. Psychiatry , Transcultural . I. Kleinman , Arthur . II . Good , Byron . III . Series . [ DNLM : 1. Cross ...
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... Health Unit of the WHO which both reviews that Unit's cross - cultural studies of depression and updates Marsella's overview of cross - cultural psychological and psychiatric contributions to this subject . With the exception of chap ...
... Health Unit of the WHO which both reviews that Unit's cross - cultural studies of depression and updates Marsella's overview of cross - cultural psychological and psychiatric contributions to this subject . With the exception of chap ...
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... Health sponsored a major effort to establish clear diagnostic criteria for psychi- atric disorders . These efforts resulted in a dramatically new diagnostic manual and innovative epidemiological instruments designed to assign ...
... Health sponsored a major effort to establish clear diagnostic criteria for psychi- atric disorders . These efforts resulted in a dramatically new diagnostic manual and innovative epidemiological instruments designed to assign ...
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... health and illness . His review of the methodo- logical issues will give readers a sense of much of the controversy that surrounds the findings from cross - cultural research and that is provoked by different disciplinary claims about ...
... health and illness . His review of the methodo- logical issues will give readers a sense of much of the controversy that surrounds the findings from cross - cultural research and that is provoked by different disciplinary claims about ...
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... Health's Diagnostic Interview Schedule , had to be separated into discrete questions , since each conveys very different meaning in Hopi . Cultural sensitivities and restrictions on discussing sexual be- havior required deletion of some ...
... Health's Diagnostic Interview Schedule , had to be separated into discrete questions , since each conveys very different meaning in Hopi . Cultural sensitivities and restrictions on discussing sexual be- havior required deletion of some ...
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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