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Umfang: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442683815

Serie: Anthropological Horizons

Inhalt: Using interdisciplinary methods, the author critically assesses the enormous amount of information that has been generated on Aboriginal mental health, deconstructs it, and through this exercise, provides guidance for a new vein of research.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , 1. Introduction: Monsters and Mental Health -- , Part A: Constructing the Aboriginal -- , 2. Constructing Aboriginal Personality: The Early Years -- , 3. The Psychoanalyst's Aboriginal -- , 4. Measuring the Aboriginal -- , Part B: The Disordered Aboriginal -- , 5. The Construction of Aboriginal Psychopathology -- , 6. The Alcoholic Aboriginal -- , 7. The Depressed Aboriginal -- , 8. The Culture-Bound Aboriginal -- , 9. The Traumatized Aboriginal -- , Part C: Treating the Aboriginal -- , 10. The Clinician's Aboriginal -- , 11. Healing the Traditional Aboriginal -- , 12. Conclusion: The Windigo's Revenge -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index -- , Backmatter

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.3138/9781442683815

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442683815

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442683815

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Umfang: 1 online resource (429 p.)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-4426-5613-1 , 0-8020-8600-4 , 1-4426-8381-3

Serie: Anthropological horizons ; 26

Inhalt: Using interdisciplinary methods, the author critically assesses the enormous amount of information that has been generated on Aboriginal mental health, deconstructs it, and through this exercise, provides guidance for a new vein of research.

Anmerkung: Description based upon print version of record. , Introduction: monsters and mental health -- Part A: Constructing the aboriginal -- Constructing aboriginal personality: the early years. Ruth Benedict and the Boasian tradition ; The emergence of psychoanalytical anthropology and the search for the Indians' 'basic personality structure' ; The Indian education research project -- The psychoanalyst's aboriginal. Anthropology and the Rorschach: no experience required ; Atomism and the northern Indian ; Persistence of the Rorschach -- Measuring the aboriginal. Measuring aboriginal personality: the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory ; The confusion of race and culture in the measurement of aboriginal intelligence -- Part B: The disordered aboriginal -- The construction of aboriginal psychopathology. 'Latent schizophrenics and primitive people': early studies of psychopathology ; Marginality and the 'caught-between-two-worlds' paradigm -- The alcoholic aboriginal. Indian drinking and white man drinking -- The depressed aboriginal. Conceptualizing depression and suicide -- The culture-bound aboriginal. Windigo psychosis ; Pibloktoq ; Ghost sickness ; Why the culture-bound syndromes persist -- The traumatized aboriginal. Conceptualizing trauma and PTSD ; Trauma and the construction of 'residential school syndrome' -- Part C: Treating the aboriginal -- The clinician's aboriginal -- Healing the traditional aboriginal. The holistic aboriginal ; The use of culture and tradition in treatment ; Defining 'traditional aboriginal healing' -- Conclusion: the Windigo's revenge. Disturbed, disordered, and dysfunctional ; Problems of culture and history ; Defining the aboriginal ; Contemporary aboriginal cultural realities: Creolization and beyond. , Issued also in print. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-8020-3005-X

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-8020-8826-0

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.3138/9781442683815