CONTENTS
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| Introduction1 | Acknowledgements4 | | Informants and interpreters5 | | Names6 | | Abbreviations and symbols7 | | Phonetic system8 |
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| PART 1. FUNDAMENTALS OF MOHAVE PSYCHIATRY9 | Etiological theories9 | | Nosology17 | | Diagnosis and treatment24 | | The position of the insane in Mohave society35 |
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| PART 2. DISORDERS OF THE INSTINCTS39 | Aggression and guilt39 | | Pathological outbursts of homicidal rage40 |
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| Pi-ipa: tceva; rȧm (people scarcity), due to premature death40 | Pathological sequelae of socially approved aggression42 | | Against game: hunter's neurosis42 | | Against the outgroup: ahwe: ma:n, scalper's psychosis43 | | Against antisocial members of the ingroup: witch killer's
psychosis45 |
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| Pathological sequelae of hyperactivity46 | An illness of ordinarily active persons49 | | The god Mastamho's psychosis50 | | The psychopathology of singers54 | | The corruption of shamanistic powers56 |
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| Pathological sequelae of inhibited aggressivity of power56 | Hi:wa itck (heartbreak)57 | | Psychosis resulting from the inhibition of magical powers57 |
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| Disorders of the sexual impulse71 | Atcoo:r hanyienk72 | | Confirmatory case material75 | | Sudhu:rk76 | | Ya tcahaetk77 | | Kamalo:y tȧminyk81 | | Insanity resulting from magical courtship83 | | Insanity caused by incest87 | | Sexual insanity resulting from witchcraft87 | | Appendix: the perversions89 |
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| PART 3. MOOD DISTURBANCES90 | The "heart" neuroses90 | | Hi:wa itck (hi:wa itce itc him)91 | Case material96 | | Informal therapy of hi:wa itck97 | | Interpretation101 |
| | Hi:wa mava: rkh106 | | Hi:wa hisa:hk (heart rot)114 | | Hi:wa hira:uk115 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Mohave Ethnopsychiatry and Suicide:The Psychiatric Knowledge and the Psychic Disturbances of an Indian Tribe.
Contributors: George Devereux - Author.
Publisher: U.S. Govt. Print. Off..
Place of publication: Washington, DC.
Publication year: 1961.
Page number: iii.
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