3. The Culture-bound Reactive Syndromes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction IX
4. Theory and Method
5. 1. Parameters of Mental Illness and Mental Health: A Public Health Approach 1
6. 2. Some Issues in Intercultural Research on Psychopathology 21
7. 3. The Culture-bound Reactive Syndromes 33
8. Epidemiological Studies
9. 4. Mental Health Surveys in Ceylon 54
10. 5. Mental Disorders in Taiwan, Fifteen Years Later: A Preliminary Report 66
11. 6. Psychiatric Epidemiological Surveys in Japan: The Problem of Case Finding 92
12. Patient Populations
13. 7. Sibling Rank, Culture, and Mental Disorders 105
14. 8. Symptom Patterns and Background Characteristics of Japanese Psychiatric Patients 114
15. 9. Characterizing Differences in Psychopathology among Ethnic Groups: A Preliminary Report on Hawaii-Japanese and Mainland-American Schizophrenics 148
16. 10. Psychopathology among Hawaii's Japanese: A Comparative Study 164
17. Community Responses
18. 11. A Mental Health Program at the Elementary School Level in Taiwan: A Six-year Review of the East-Gate Project 178
19. 12. The Structure of Rejecting Attitudes toward the Mentally Ill in Japan 195
20. Local Healers
21. 13. Shaman and Client in Okinawa 216
22. 14. Psychiatric Study of the Shaman in Japan 223
23. Perspectives on Psychological Processes
24. 15. The Psychological Function of Witchcraft Belief: The Burmese Case 245
25. 16. Cultural Values, Concept of Self, and Projection: The Burmese Case 259
26. 17. Buddhism and Some Effects on the Rearing of Children in Thailand 286
27. 18. Westernization and the Split-level Personality in the Filipino 296
28. 19. Philippine Culture, Stress, and Psychopathology 306
29. 20. Japanese Psychology, Dependency Need, and Mental Health 335
30. 21. Minority Status and Deviancy in Japan 342
31. 22. On Getting Angry in the Society Islands 358
32. Family Organization
33. 23. Ego Structure in the Hindu Joint Family: Some Considerations 381
34. 24. A Preliminary View of Family and Mental Health in Urban Communist China 393
35. Social Change
36. 25. Changing Perception of Neurotic Illness 405
37. 26. Sociocultural Change and Value Conflict in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Pakistan 415
38. CONCLUSION
39. 27. Cultural Psychiatric Research in Asia 433
40. 28. Cultural Relativity and the Identification of Psychiatric Disorders 448
41. 29. The Family as a Strategic Focus in Cross-cultural Psychiatric Studies 463
42. 30. Mental Health Aspects of Rapid Social Change 478