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Author O'Nell, Theresa DeLeane, 1957- author.

Title Disciplined hearts : history, identity, and depression in an American Indian community / Theresa DeLeane O'Nell
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Telling about whites, talking about Indians -- The making and unmaking of the "real Indians" -- Speaking to the heart -- Feeling bereaved, feeling aggrieved, and feeling worthless -- Speaking from the heart -- Culture and depression
Summary "'This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80% of our people are depressed.' When she arrived at the Flathead Reservation in Montana to start an ethnographic study of depression, medical anthropologist Theresa DeLeane O'Nell repeatedly encountered such statements. This astonishingly widespread concern propelled the author into the complex lives of these modern American Indian people and into the historical roots of their contemporary situation. In Disciplined Hearts, O'Nell draws on recent anthropological theory to locate Flathead depression in the culturally organized experiences of an oppressed people. According to O'Nell, Flathead narratives of depression are tales in which narrators use their demoralization as a guide for modern Indian life. Underlying their tales, she says, is the dramatic assertion that depression is the natural condition of'real Indians'--those who have'disciplined'their hearts by recasting their personal sadness into compassion for others. This rich account of family and community life describes the moral imagination with which Flathead Indian people weave together historical and personal loss, American Indian identity, and social responsibility. Based on her ethnographic and clinical work, O'Nell pinpoints American Indian depression within a complex interplay of cultural ideas of the self and the Indian family, emotion and ethnic identity, and historical relations between Indians and whites."--Provided by publisher
Analysis American Indians
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Salish Indians -- Psychology
Salish Indians -- Mental health
Salish Indians -- Ethnic identity
Depression, Mental -- Montana -- Flathead Indian Reservation
Ethnopsychology -- Montana -- Flathead Indian Reservation
Cultural psychiatry -- Montana -- Flathead Indian Reservation
Depressive Disorder -- ethnology
Depression -- ethnology
Indians, North American -- psychology
PSYCHOLOGY -- Ethnopsychology.
Cultural psychiatry
Depression, Mental
Ethnopsychology
Salish Indians -- Psychology
Social conditions
SUBJECT Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.) -- Social conditions
Subject Montana -- Flathead Indian Reservation
Form Electronic book
LC no. 95035126
ISBN 9780520921269
0520921267
0585093199
9780585093192