Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder Volume 16 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520058835)

Some of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on depression. Culture and Depression presents the work of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists who examine the controversies, agreements, and conceptual and methodological problems that arise in the course of such research. A book of enormous depth and breadth of discussion, Culture and Depression enriches the cross-cultural study of emotions and mental illness and leads it in new directions. It commences with a historical study followed by a series of anthropological accounts that examine the problems that arise when depression is assessed in other cultures. This is a work of impressive scholarship which demonstrates that anthropological approaches to affect and illness raise central questions for psychiatry and psychology, and that cross-cultural studies of depression raise equally provocative questions for anthropology.

Author: Arthur Kleinman
ISBN-10: 0520058836
ISBN-13: 9780520058835
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/19/1986
Pages: 500
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 8.88h x 6.04w x 1.40d