Culture and Depression
Subtitle: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder (Culture & Depression)
Contributors: Arthur Kleinman (Editor); Byron J. Good (Editor)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 19, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780520058835
Subjects: Anthropology; Clinical psychology; Depression; General; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Psychology
First sentence: The claim that cross-cultural studies of depression provide a significant challenge to contemporary theories and research methods rests first on the argument that dysphoria and depressive illness vary in important ways across cultures.