Revenge of the Windigo : The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Monsters and Mental Health -- Themes and Influences -- Plan of the Book -- Terminology -- About the Title -- Conclusion -- PART A: CONSTRUCTING THE ABORIGINAL -- 2 Constructing Aboriginal Personality: The Early Years -- Ruth Benedict and the Boasian Tradition -- The Emergence of Psychoanalytical Anthropology and the Search for the Indians' 'Basic Personality Structure' -- The Indian Education Research Project -- Conclusion -- 3 The Psychoanalyst's Aboriginal -- Anthropology and the Rorschach: No Experience Required -- The Generation of Aboriginal Personality Portraits -- Atomism and the Northern Indian -- Persistence of the Rorschach -- Conclusion -- 4 Measuring the Aboriginal -- Acculturation and the Conceptualization of Aboriginality -- Measuring Aboriginal Cultural Orientation -- Measuring Aboriginal Personality: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory -- The Confusion of Race and Culture in the Measurement of Aboriginal Intelligence -- Constructing the Aboriginal Variable -- Conclusion -- PART B: THE DISORDERED ABORIGINAL -- 5 The Construction of Aboriginal Psychopathology -- 'Latent Schizophrenics and Primitive People': Early Studies of Psychopathology -- Marginality and the 'Caught-Between-Two-Worlds' Paradigm -- Acculturative Stress -- Community-Based Epidemiological Studies -- Conclusion -- 6 The Alcoholic Aboriginal -- The Biologically Susceptible Aboriginal -- The How and Why of Aboriginal Drinking -- Indian Drinking and White Man Drinking -- Emerging Epidemiological Issues -- Conclusion -- 7 The Depressed Aboriginal -- Conceptualizing Depression and Suicide -- Measuring and Treating Aboriginal Depression and Suicide -- An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Aboriginal Depression -- Conclusion -- 8 The Culture-Bound Aboriginal -- The Culture-Bound Syndromes.

Windigo Psychosis -- Pibloktoq -- Ghost Sickness -- Why the Culture-Bound Syndromes Persist -- Conclusion -- 9 The Traumatized Aboriginal -- Conceptualizing Trauma and PTSD -- Trauma and Aboriginal Peoples -- Historic, Cultural, and Collective Trauma -- Trauma and the Construction of 'Residential School Syndrome' -- Conclusion -- PART C: TREATING THE ABORIGINAL -- 10 The Clinician's Aboriginal -- The Anthropological Roots of Aboriginal Values Research -- The Psychologist's Approach to Aboriginal Values -- Delineating the Ethics, Values, and Behaviours of the Aboriginal -- Essentializing the Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Dichotomy -- Values and Treatment -- Conclusion -- 11 Healing the Traditional Aboriginal -- Aboriginal Theories of Mental Health and Illness -- The Holistic Aboriginal -- Re-opening the Mind/Body Debate -- The Use of Culture and Tradition in Treatment -- Defining 'Traditional Aboriginal Healing' -- Conclusion -- 12 Conclusion: The Windigo's Revenge -- Disturbed, Disordered, and Dysfunctional -- Problems of Culture and History -- Defining the Aboriginal -- Contemporary Aboriginal Cultural Realities: Creolization and Beyond -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Using interdisciplinary methods, the author critically assesses the enormous amount of information that has been generated on Aboriginal mental health, deconstructs it, and through this exercise, provides guidance for a new vein of research.

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