Revenge of the windigo : the construction of the mind and mental health of North American Aboriginal peoples /
Using interdisciplinary methods, the author critically assesses the enormous amount of information that has been generated on Aboriginal mental health, deconstructs it, and through this exercise, provides guidance for a new vein of research.
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| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2004
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| Series: | Anthropological horizons ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: monsters and mental health
- Part A: Constructing the aboriginal
- Constructing aboriginal personality: the early years. Ruth Benedict and the Boasian tradition ; The emergence of psychoanalytical anthropology and the search for the Indians' 'basic personality structure' ; The Indian education research project
- The psychoanalyst's aboriginal. Anthropology and the Rorschach: no experience required ; Atomism and the northern Indian ; Persistence of the Rorschach
- Measuring the aboriginal. Measuring aboriginal personality: the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory ; The confusion of race and culture in the measurement of aboriginal intelligence
- Part B: The disordered aboriginal
- The construction of aboriginal psychopathology. 'Latent schizophrenics and primitive people': early studies of psychopathology ; Marginality and the 'caught-between-two-worlds' paradigm
- The alcoholic aboriginal. Indian drinking and white man drinking
- The depressed aboriginal. Conceptualizing depression and suicide
- The culture-bound aboriginal. Windigo psychosis ; Pibloktoq ; Ghost sickness ; Why the culture-bound syndromes persist
- The traumatized aboriginal. Conceptualizing trauma and PTSD ; Trauma and the construction of 'residential school syndrome'
- Part C: Treating the aboriginal
- The clinician's aboriginal
- Healing the traditional aboriginal. The holistic aboriginal ; The use of culture and tradition in treatment ; Defining 'traditional aboriginal healing'
- Conclusion: the Windigo's revenge. Disturbed, disordered, and dysfunctional ; Problems of culture and history ; Defining the aboriginal ; Contemporary aboriginal cultural realities: Creolization and beyond.
