Byron J. Good & Arthur Kleinman 
Culture and Depression [EPUB ebook] 
Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder

Some of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on depression. Culture and Depression presents the work of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists who examine the controversies, agreements, and conceptual and methodological problems that arise in the course of such research. A book of enormous depth and breadth of discussion, Culture and Depression enriches the cross-cultural study of emotions and mental illness and leads it in new directions. It commences with a historical study followed by a series of anthropological accounts that examine the problems that arise when depression is assessed in other cultures. This is a work of impressive scholarship which demonstrates that anthropological approaches to affect and illness raise central questions for psychiatry and psychology, and that cross-cultural studies of depression raise equally provocative questions for anthropology.



Some of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on depression. Culture and Depression presents the work of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists who examine the controversies

Innehållsförteckning

Preface

Introduction: Culture and Depression

Arthur Kleinman and Byron Good


Part I. MEANINGS, RELATIONSHIPS, SOCIAL AFFECTS:

HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL

PERSPECTIVES  ON DEPRESSION

Introduction to Part I


1. Acedia the Sin and Its Relationship to Sorrow and Melancholia

Stanley W. Jackson


2. Depression and the Translation of Emotional Worlds

Catherine Lutz


3. The Cultural Analysis of Depressive Affect: An Example from New Guinea

Edward L. Schieffelin


4. Depression, Buddhism, and the Work of Culture in Sri Lanka

Gananath Obeyesekere


5. The Interpretive Basis of Depression

Charles F. Keyes


Part II DEPRESSIVE COGNITION, COMMUNICATION, AND BEHAVIOR

Introduction to Part


6.Menstrual Pollution, Soul Loss, and the Comparative Study of Emotions

Richard A. Shweder


7. Dimensions of Dysphoria: The View from Linguistic Anthropology

William 0. Beeman


8. The Theoretical Implications of Converging Research on Depression and the

Culture-Bound Syndromes

John E. Carr and Peter P. Vitaliano


Part III EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT OF DEPRESSNE DISORDERS CROSS-CULTURALLY

Introduction to Part III


9. A Study of Depression among Traditional Africans, Urban North Americans,

and Southeast Asian Refugees

Morton Beiser


10. Cross-Cultural Studies of Depressive Disorders: An Overview

Anthony J. Marsella, Norman Sartorius,

Assen Jablensky, and Fred R. Fenton


Part IV INTEGRATIONS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRIC ANTHROPOLOGY

OF DEPRESSWE DISORDERS

Introduction to Part IV


11. The Depressive Experience in American Indian Communities:

A Challenge for Psychiatric Theory and Diagnosis

Spero M. Manson, James H. Shore,

and Joseph D. Bloom


12. The Interpretation of Iranian Depressive Illness and Dysphoric Affect

Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good,

and Robert Moradi


13. Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture,

Depressive Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain

Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman


Epilogue: Culture and Depression

Byron Good and Arthur Kleinman


Contributors

Indexes

Author Index

Subject Index

Om författaren

Arthur Kleinman is a prominent American psychiatrist and is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of medical anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry at Harvard University. Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University.