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Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: the psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.

Title: Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: the psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.
Author: Devereux, George, 1908-1985.
Publication: Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1961.

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vi, 586 p. illus., ports.; 24 cm.

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Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin 175

Uniform Title

Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology) 175.

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Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 553-567.

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Contents

Fundamentals of Mohave psychiatry -- Disorders of the instincts -- Mood disturbances -- Disorders caused by external beings -- Occidental disease categories -- Psychiatric disorders of childhood -- Suicide -- Genesis and validity of Mohave psychiatry -- The function of alcohol.

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