Social psychiatry across cultures : studies from North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa /

This well-illustrated compendium of recent works in social psychiatry from around the world describes the association between cultural elements indigenous to a society and mental health and illness. The book compares this anthropologic-descriptive body of work with highly quantitative research paper...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Price, Rumi Kato, Shea, Brent Mack, Mookherjee, Harsha N.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Plenum Press, [1995]
Series:	Topics in social psychiatry. Language of science.
Subjects:	Social psychiatry. Psychiatry, Transcultural. Community Psychiatry. Mental Disorders > psychology. Cross-Cultural Comparison. Psychische stoornissen. Interculturele vergelijkingen (vorm) Sozialpsychiatrie. Kultursoziologie. Aufsatzsammlung. Internationaler Vergleich. Psychiatry Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : culture, stratification, and social psychiatry / Rumi Kato Price [and others]
Studies across cultures. Mentally disturbed patients in Nigeria : problems and prospects of proper rehabilitation / A.I. Odebiyi and R.O. Ogedengbe
Alcoholism in the Czech and Slovak Republics in the last 30 years : an uneasy legacy for the reformers / Martin Bútora
Psychoemotional responses to the existing social systems in tribal populations in India / Harsha N. Mookherjee and Samita Manna.
The Amish life-style in an era of rapid social change / Jerry Savells
Reciprocity in support networks of sheltered-care residents / Steven P. Segal and Jane Holschuh
Stratification studies. Ethnicity, social status, and psychiatric disorder in the epidemiologic catchment area survey / Charles E. Holzer III, Jeffrey W. Swanson, and Brent Mack Shea
Sex differences in the relationship between social support and mental health / Peter C. Meyer
Urban/rural differences in the structure and consequences of social support / Suzanne T. Ortega and David R. Johnson
Specificity and universality. Afro-Surinamese ethnopsychiatry : a transcultural approach / Charles J. Wooding.
Family composition, birth order, and gender of Mexican children in psychological treatment / Harry W. Martin [and others]
Protective factors for drug abuse : a prospectus for a Japanese-U.S. epidemiologic study / Rumi Kato Price, Kiyoshi Wada, and Keith S. Murray
Conclusion : Cross-cultural perspectives in social psychiatry / Rumi Kato Price, Keith S. Murray, and David J. Hilditch.