Out of Place : Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

By: Goddard, MichaelMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Social Identities SerPublisher: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (187 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780857450951Subject(s): Ethnopsychology -- Papua New Guinea -- Western Highlands Province | Papuans -- Mental health -- Papua New Guinea -- Western Highlands Province | Papuans -- Papua New Guinea -- Western Highlands Province -- Psychology | Papuans -- Papua New Guinea -- Western Highlands Province -- Social conditions | Psychiatry, Transcultural -- Papua New Guinea -- Western Highlands Province | Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) -- Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Out of Place : Madness in the Highlands of Papua New GuineaDDC classification: 305.9/0840899912 LOC classification: DU740.42.G615 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Out of Place -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - The Development of Psychiatry in Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 2 - Psychiatric Theory and Practice in Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 3 - Madness and the Ambivalent Use of Psychiatry in the Kaugel Valley -- Chapter 4 - Affliction and Madness -- Chapter 5 - The Social Construction of Madness: Lopa's Season -- Chapter 6 - The Social Construction of Madness: The Mad Giant -- Conclusion: In Anticipation of a Kakoli Ethnopsychiatry -- Appendix A: Orthography -- Appendix B: Glossary of Umbu Ungu Terms -- References -- Index.
Summary: The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behaviour, not mental pathology. Moreover, their conception of the person did not recognise the same physical and mental categories that inform Western medical science, and psychiatry in particular was not officially introduced to PNG until the late 1950s. Its practitioners claimed that it could adequately accommodate the cultural variation among Melanesian societies. This book compares the intent and practice of transcultural psychiatry with Kakoli interpretations of, and responses to, madness, showing the reasons for their occasional recourse to psychiatric services. Episodes involving madness, as defined by the Kakoli themselves, are described in order to offer a context for the historical lifeworld and praxis of the community and raise fundamental questions about whether a culturally sensitive psychiatry is possible in the Melanesian context.
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Out of Place -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - The Development of Psychiatry in Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 2 - Psychiatric Theory and Practice in Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 3 - Madness and the Ambivalent Use of Psychiatry in the Kaugel Valley -- Chapter 4 - Affliction and Madness -- Chapter 5 - The Social Construction of Madness: Lopa's Season -- Chapter 6 - The Social Construction of Madness: The Mad Giant -- Conclusion: In Anticipation of a Kakoli Ethnopsychiatry -- Appendix A: Orthography -- Appendix B: Glossary of Umbu Ungu Terms -- References -- Index.

The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behaviour, not mental pathology. Moreover, their conception of the person did not recognise the same physical and mental categories that inform Western medical science, and psychiatry in particular was not officially introduced to PNG until the late 1950s. Its practitioners claimed that it could adequately accommodate the cultural variation among Melanesian societies. This book compares the intent and practice of transcultural psychiatry with Kakoli interpretations of, and responses to, madness, showing the reasons for their occasional recourse to psychiatric services. Episodes involving madness, as defined by the Kakoli themselves, are described in order to offer a context for the historical lifeworld and praxis of the community and raise fundamental questions about whether a culturally sensitive psychiatry is possible in the Melanesian context.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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