PSY 366: Culture and Mental Health
Selected Readings

Texts:

Kirmayer, L.J. (1994) Is the concept of mental disorder culturally relative? In S.A. Kirk and S. Einbinder (Eds.), Controversial Issues in Mental Health, (pp. 1-20). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Paris, J. (1991). Personality disorders, parasuicide and culture. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, 28(1), 25-40.

Peters, L. G. (1994) Rites of Passage and the Borderline Syndrome. Anthropology of Consciousness, 5 (1), March, 1994, 1-15.

Gunewardene, A., Huon, G.F., & Zheng, R. (2001) Exposure to Westernization and Dieting: A Cross-Cultural Study. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 29, 289-293.

Jilek, Wolfgang G. (1994) Traditional Healing in the Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, 31 ((3), 219-256.

Miller, M.N & Pumaregia, A.S.G. (2001) Culture and Eating Disorders: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Review. Psychiatry, 64(2), 93-110.

Kirmayer, L.J., Young, A., and Haydon, B.C. (1995) The Cultural Context of Anxiety Disorders. The Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 18 (30), 503-521.

Kirmayer, L.J. (2001) Cultural Variations in the Clinical Presentations of Depression and Anxiety: Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment. J. Clin. Psychiatry, 62 (suppl 13), 22-28.

Keyes, C.F. (1985) The Interpretive Basis of Depression. In A. Kleinman and B. Good (Eds.), Culture and Depression: Studies on the Anthropology and Cross-cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pages 153-174.

Kirmayer, L.J. (1994) Pacing the Void: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Dissociation. In D. Spiegel (Ed.), Dissociation: Culture, Mind and Body. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, Inc. Pages 91-122.

Lambek, M. (1989) From Disease to Discourse: Remarks on the conceptualization of trance and spirit possession. In C.A. Ward (Ed.), Altered States of Consciousness and Mental Helath: A Cross-cultural Perspective, (pp. 36-61). London: Sage.

Boehnlein, J.K. and Kinzie, J.D. (1995) Refugee Trauma. Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, 32 (3), 223-252.

Kleinman, A. (1995) Violence, Culture, and the Politics of Trauma. In Kleinman, A., Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine. Berkeley University of California Press. pp. 173-189.

Hopper, K. and Wanderling, J. (2000) Revisiting the Developed Versus Developing Country Distinction in Course and Outcome in Schizophrenia: Results From ISoS, the WHO Collaborative Followup Project. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 26 (4), 835-846.

Scheper-Hughes, N. (1987) “Mental” in “Southie”: Individual, Family, and Community Responses to Psychosis in South Boston. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 11, 53-78.

Kirmayer, L. J. (1993). Healing and the invention of metaphor: The effectiveness of symbols revisited. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 17(2), 161-195.

Kirmayer, L. J. (1996). Landscapes of Memory: Trauma, narrative and dissociation. In P. Antze & M. Lambek (Eds.), Tense Past: Cultural Essays on Trauma and Memory. London: Routledge.

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