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The butterfly and the serpent : essays in psychiatry, race, and religion

Title
The butterfly and the serpent : essays in psychiatry, race, and religion / Roland Littlewood.
Author
Littlewood, Roland.
Publication
London ; New York : Free Association Books, 1998.

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Description
x, 344 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Cultural psychiatry
  • Psychiatry, Transcultural
  • Ethnology
  • Religion
  • Psychiatry
  • Anthropology, Cultural
  • Religion
  • Ethnopsychology
  • religion (discipline)
  • Ethnology
  • Cultural psychiatry
  • Psychiatry, Transcultural
  • Psychiatrie
  • Antropologie
  • Ethnopsychiatrie
Genre/Form
Collected Work
Note
  • Previously published in various sources.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-333) and index.
Contents
1. Anthropology and Psychiatry: An Alternative Approach -- 2. The Antinomian Hasid -- 3. The Individual Articulation of Shared Symbols -- 4. Against Pathology -- 5. Jungle Madness -- 6. From Vice to Madness -- 7. An Indigenous Conceptualization of Reactive Depression in Trinidad -- 8. The Imitation of Madness -- 9. Putting Out the Life -- 10. Verticality as the Idiom for Mood and Disorder -- 11. Moments of Creation -- 12. The Effectiveness of Words -- 13. The Butterfly and the Serpent -- 14. From Demonic Possession to Multiple Personality -- 15. Thaumaturgy to Human Potential: The King's Evil Revisited.
ISBN
  • 1853433993
  • 9781853433993
  • 1853434000
  • 9781853434006
LCCN
99490212
OCLC
  • ocm39969257
  • 39969257
  • SCSB-961540
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library