1 option
Basic problems of ethnopsychiatry / George Devereux ; translated by Basia Miller Gulati and by George Devereux.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Devereux, George, 1908-1985.
- Standardized Title:
- Essais d'ethnopsychiatrie générale. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatry, Transcultural.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 366 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980.
- Summary:
- In these sixteen essays, written between 1939 and 1965, George Devereux argues that the understanding of all human behavior requires the application of both psychological and sociocultural methods of explanation. This unique approach, which differentiates sanity and insanity from social adjustment and maladjustment, provides a rigorous foundation for a general theory of psychoanalytic ethnopsychiatry. George Devereux, a psychoanalyst and anthropologist, discusses crime, sexual delinquency, dreams in non-Western cultures, and cannibalistic drives of parents. He frequently cites case material from his extensive field work with the Mahave Indians of Arizona and the Sedang Moi of Vietnam and from his clinical work with non-Western patients.
- Notes:
- Translation of Essais d'ethnopsychiatrie générale.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 336-356.
- ISBN:
- 0226143554
- OCLC:
- 4805069
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.