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Culture and Depression
Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder
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Culture and Depression
Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder
About this book
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.
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Yes, you can access Culture and Depression by Arthur Kleinman, Byron J. Good, Arthur Kleinman,Byron J. Good in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Culture and Depression
- PART I. Meanings, Relationships, Social Affects: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Depression
- INTRODUCTION TO PART I
- 1. Acedia the Sin and Its Relationship to Sorrow and Melancholia*
- 2. Depression and the Translation of Emotional Worlds
- 3. The Cultural Analysis of Depressive Affect: An Example from New Guinea
- 4. Depression, Buddhism, and the Work of Culture in Sri Lanka
- 5. The Interpretive Basis of Depression
- PART II. Depressive Cognition, Communication, and Behavior
- INTRODUCTION TO PART II
- 6. Menstrual Pollution, Soul Loss, and the Comparative Study of Emotions
- 7. Dimensions of Dysphoria: The View from Linguistic Anthropology
- 8. The Theoretical Implications of Converging Research on Depression and the Culture-Bound Syndromes
- PART III. Epidemiological Measurement of Depressive Disorders Cross-Culturally
- INTRODUCTION TO PART III
- 9. A Study of Depression among Traditional Africans, Urban North Americans, and Southeast Asian Refugees
- 10. Cross-Cultural Studies of Depressive Disorders: An Overview
- PART IV. Integrations: Anthropological Epidemiology and Psychiatric Anthropology of Depressive Disorders
- 11. The Depressive Experience in American Indian Communities: A Challenge for Psychiatric Theory and Diagnosis
- 12. The Interpretation of Iranian Depressive Illness and Dysphoric Affect
- 13. Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture, Depressive Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain
- Epilogue: Culture and Depression
- CONTRIBUTORS
- Index
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF HEALTH SYSTEMS AND MEDICAL CARE