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Transcultural Research in Mental Health : Volume II of Mental Health Research in Asia and the Pacific / ed. by William P. Lebra.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- East-West Center Press
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (451 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- From “Psychiatric Problems at the Buddhist Priest’s Hospital in Thailand” to “Political Dimensions of Psychiatric Thought,” Transcultural Research in Mental Health emphasizes the international and interdisciplinary facets of mental health. From fieldwork to philosophy the approach is as diverse, exciting, and far-reaching as the actual problems and orientations of cross cultural research in this area.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Problems of Development
- 1. Prospects of Psychiatric Research in a Multiracial Developing Community: West Malaysia
- 2. Psychological Problems and Attitudes of Korean Students
- Communication: Cultural Patterns
- 3. Tiny Dramas: Vocal Communication between Mother and Infant in Japanese and American Families
- 4. The Use of the Imperative Mood in Postwar Japan
- Family Dynamics, Socialization, and Personality Development
- 5. Family Life and Delinquency: Some Perspectives from Japanese Research
- 6. Suicidal Attempts among Children in Japan
- 7. The Family and the Management of Mental Health Problems in Vietnam
- 8. Psychodynamic Structures in Vietnamese Personality
- Mental Health in the Philippines: Three Studies
- 9. Mental Disorders in a Philippine Community: An Epidemiological Survey
- 10. Stresses, Resources, and Symptom Patterns in Urban Filipino Men
- 11. A Study of Psychopathology in a Group of Filipino Patients
- Comparative Approaches
- 12. Maturity in Korea and America
- 13. A Comparative Study of Patienthood in Japanese and American Mental Hospitals
- 14. A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Psychiatric Disorder: Eskimos of Alaska, Yorubas of Nigeria, and Nova Scotians of Canada
- 15. Variations in the Motivational Antecedents of Achievement among Hawaii's Ethnic Groups
- 16. An Approach to the Analysis of Subjective Culture
- Religious Factors in Mental Health
- 17. Some Psychiatric Problems at the Buddhist Priest's Hospital in Thailand
- 18. Javanese Mystical Groups
- 19. Religious Conversion and Elimination of the Sick Role: A Japanese Sect in Hawaii
- Problems of Transcultural Adaptation: Migration, Study Abroad, Expatriation, and Fusion
- 20. Migration and Mental Disorders in Taiwan
- 21. Paranoid Manifestations among Chinese Students Studying Abroad: Some Preliminary Findings
- 22. Mental Illness among Western Expatriates in a Plural Society: An Exploratory Study
- 23. Psychiatric Concomitants of Fusion in Plural Societies
- Epistemic Problems
- 24. Pathologies of Epistemology
- 25. Group Perceptions and Group Relations
- 26. On Reason and Sanity: Political Dimensions of Psychiatric Thought
- 27. Reflections of a Tender-Minded Radical
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)
- ISBN:
- 0-8248-8548-1
- OCLC:
- 1253313913
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