| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 414 pages) |
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Anthropological horizons ;; 26 |
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Anthropological horizons ;; 26.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-391) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Psychology.
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Indians of North America -- Mental health.
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Ethnopsychology -- History
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Indians, North American -- psychology
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Ethnopsychology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Ethnopsychology
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Indians of North America -- Mental health
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Indians of North America -- Psychology
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442683815 |
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1442683813 |
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