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Author Ellenberger, Henri F. (Henri Frédéric), 1905-1993, author.

Title Ethnopsychiatry / Henri F. Ellenberger ; edited by Emmanuel Delille ; translated by Jonathan Kaplansky.

Publication Info. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 56
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 56.
Note Translation of: Ethno-psychiatrie.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the late 1960s these questions gave rise to a groundbreaking series of articles written by the psychiatrist Henri Ellenberger, who would go on to publish The Discovery of the Unconscious:The History and Evolution of Dynamic psychiatry in 1970. Fifty years later they are presented for the first time in English translation, introduced by historian of science Emmanuel Delille. Ethnopsychiatry explores one of the most controversial subjects in psychiatric research: the role of culture in mental health. In his articles Ellenberger addressed the complex clinical and theoretical problems of cultural specificity in mental illness, collective psychoses, differentiations within cultural groups, and biocultural interactions. He was especially attuned to the correlations between rapid cultural transformations in postwar society, urbanization, and the frequency of mental illness. Ellenberger drew from a vast and varied primary and secondary literature in several languages, as well as from his own findings in clinical practice, which included work with indigenous peoples. In analyzing Ellenberger's contributions Delille unveils the transnational and interdisciplinary origins of transcultural psychiatry, which grew out of knowledge networks that crisscrossed the globe. The book has a rich selection of appendices, including Ellenberger's lecture notes on a case of peyote addiction and his correspondence with anthropologist and psychoanalyst Georges Devereux. These original essays, and their masterful contextualization, provide a compelling introduction to the foundations of transcultural psychiatry and one of its most distinguished and prolific researchers. Henri Ellenberger (1905-1993) was a physician and a pioneering figure in transcultural psychiatry, criminology, and the history of medicine."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Part One From Exotic Psychiatry to the University Networks of Cultural Psychiatry: Toward a History of Ethnopsychiatry as a Corpus of Knowledge in a Transitional Period (1945-1965) / Emmanuel Delille -- Part Two Ethnopsychiatry [1965-67] / H.F. Ellenberger -- Theoretical and General Ethnopsychiatry -- Descriptive and Clinical Part.
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Subject Ellenberger, Henri F. (Henri Frédéric), 1905-1993.
Ellenberger, Henri F. (Henri Frédéric), 1905-1993.
Cultural psychiatry.
Cultural psychiatry.
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
Cultural psychiatry -- History.
History.
Psychiatry, Transcultural -- History.
MEDICAL / History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Delille, Emmanuel, editor.
Kaplansky, Jonathan, 1960- translator.
Added Title Ethno-psychiatrie. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2021183643
Other Form: Print version: Ellenberger, Henri F. (Henri Frédéric), 1905-1993. Ethno-psychiatrie. English. Ethnopsychiatry. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020 0228003857 9780228003854 (OCoLC)1143624291
ISBN 9780228004462 (EPUB)
0228004454 (PDF)
0228004462 (EPUB)
9780228004455 (electronic book)