Revenge of the Windigo : The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Waldram, James B. (James Burgess) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Indians of North America > Psychology.
Indians of North America > Mental health.
Ethnopsychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
PSYCHOLOGY > Ethnopsychology.
Ethnopsychologie > Histoire.
Indiens > Amerique du Nord > Sante mentale.
Indiens d'Amerique > Amerique du Nord > Psychologie.
Indians, North American > psychology
Ethnopsychology > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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