Comparative Psychiatry The International and Intercultural Distribution of Mental Illness

Contents: Introduction. - Comparability of Official Sources of Data. - Comparability of Special Survey Technique Findings. - Schizophrenia. - The Acute Reactive Psychoses. - The Affective Disorders. - Suicide and Parasuicide. - Disorders Associated With Alcohol and Other Drugs. - Psychosomatic Disor...

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Main Author: Murphy, H. B. M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1982, 1982
Edition:1st ed. 1982
Series:Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Psychiatrie
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505 0 |a 7 Responses to Treatment: Anglo-Canadians and French-Canadians -- 8 Depressive Symptoms in Community Surveys: Sarawak and Mexico -- 9 Conclusions -- 7 Suicide and Parasuicide -- 1 Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Trends -- 2 Durkheim’s Fatalistic and Anomic Types in the Twentieth Century -- 3 Alternative Hypotheses Respecting International Variations -- 4 Psychological and Psychoanalytic Viewpoints: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden -- 5 Suicide and Depression -- 6 Revengeful, “Samsonic,” and “Corrective” Suicide: Africa and New Britain -- 7 Impulse Suicide in the Young: Samoans, Trukese, and Guyanese -- 8 The Suicidal Gamble: Tikopia -- 9 A Mutilating Gamble: Singapore Chinese -- 10 Altruistic Suicide: Chinese and Eskimos -- 11 Parasuicide: Northwestern Amerindians and Scots -- 12 Conclusions -- 8 Disorders Associated with Alcohol and Other Drugs -- 1 Drug Preferences: India and Elsewhere -- 2 Consumption Levels and Drunkenness: Primitive Cultures --  
505 0 |a 1 Introduction -- 1 Definition, Goals, and Parameters -- 2 Concepts of Mental Disorder -- 3 Nations and Cultures -- 4 The “Emic” and “Etic” Viewpoints -- 5 Varieties of Approach -- 2 Comparability of Official Sources of Data -- 1 Hospitalizations: -- 2 Clinic Attendance and Combined Case Registers -- 3 Mortality from Suicide and Other Causes -- 4 Delinquency and Crime -- 5 Populations-at-Risk -- 6 Conclusions -- 3 Comparability of Special Survey Technique Findings -- 1 Case Identification by Practicing Psychiatrists -- 2 Case Identification by General Practitioners -- 3 Direct Identification by Research Psychiatrists -- 4 Household Survey by Questionnaire and Interview -- 5 Direct Case Identification by Questionnaire Alone -- 6 Case Identification by Lay Informants -- 7 Conclusions -- 4 Schizophrenia -- 1 Peoples with High Incidence Rates: Irish and Southwestern Croatians -- 2 Peoples with Low Rates: Hutterites, Tongans, and Taiwan Aborigines --  
505 0 |a 5 Sexual Neuroses and the Oedipus Complex Theory: India, Laos, and the Celebes -- 6 Conclusions -- 11 Mental Health in Global Perspective -- 1 A Scientific Measure of General Mental Ill-Health? -- 2 Aggregated Morbidity Scales: United States and Europe -- 3 National Groups with Exceptional Vulnerability or Resistance -- 4 Features Distinguishing Vulnerable and Resistant Peoples -- 5 Psychopathology and Positive Mental Health -- References 
505 0 |a 3 Shifts from Low to High Rates: Achinese and Tallensi -- 4 Variations in Course and Outcome -- 5 Types and Symptomatology -- 6 Treatment Response -- 7 Conclusions -- 5 The Acute Reactive Psychoses -- 1 Historical Trends in Diagnosis -- 2 International Comparisons: Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean -- 3 Comparisons in Multicultural Societies: Singapore and Austria -- 4 Bouffée Délirante: France, Senegal, and Guadeloupe -- 5 The Psychoses of the Puerperium: West and North Africa -- 6 Amok: Malaysia, Indonesia, and Laos -- 7 Conclusions -- 6 The Affective Disorders -- 1 Historical Symptom Changes in Europe: The “English Malady” -- 2 High Incidence Rates: European Jewry, 1895–1930 -- 3 Recent Hospitalization Rates: Subcultures in England and Mauritius -- 4 Sex Ratios: Mauritians, West Indians, and French-Canadians -- 5 Ratio of Depression to Mania: SouthAfrica, New Zealand, and Fiji -- 6 Abnormal Guilt and Self-Depreciation: Eastern and Western Religions --  
505 0 |a 3 Chronic Somatic and Social Disorders -- 4 Drug Dependency: Amerindians and United States Forces in Vietnam -- 5 Acute Somatic and Social Disorders -- 6 Drug-Associated Psychopathology -- 7 Vulnerable and Resistant Cultures: Irish, Apache, Jewish, and Chinese -- 8 Prevention and Treatment Responses: Salish and Trinidad Indians -- 9 Conclusions -- 9 Psychosomatic Disorders -- 1 Gastrointestinal Disorders: Somatic Factors -- 2 Perforated Peptic Ulcer: Nineteenth Century Europe -- 3 Duodenal Ulcer in Males: Twentieth Century Western Societies - -- 4 “Organ Specificity” and Cerebrovascular Ischemia: Japanese -- 5 Hypertension: Tokelauans, Samburu, and Zulu -- 6 Ischemic Heart Disease: Finns and Japanese Americans -- 7 Conclusions -- 10 Neurosesand Other Minor Disorders -- 1 Battle Neuroses from One War to Another -- 2 Hysteria and Latah: India, Mexico, and Malaysia -- 3 Trance and Possession States: Bandari and Abelam -- 4 Phobias: British, Japanese, and Eskimos --  
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520 |a Contents: Introduction. - Comparability of Official Sources of Data. - Comparability of Special Survey Technique Findings. - Schizophrenia. - The Acute Reactive Psychoses. - The Affective Disorders. - Suicide and Parasuicide. - Disorders Associated With Alcohol and Other Drugs. - Psychosomatic Disorders. - Neuroses and Other Minor Disorders. - Mental Health in Global Perspective. - Subject Index