TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goddard,Michael
TI  - Out of place: madness in the highlands of Papua New Guinea 
T2  - Social identities
SN  - 9780857450944 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - DU740.42 .G615 2011
U1  - 305.9/0840899912 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Papuans
KW  - Papua New Guinea
KW  - Western Highlands Province
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Psychiatry, Transcultural
KW  - Ethnopsychology
KW  - Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; 1; The Development of Psychiatry in Papua New Guinea --; 2; Psychiatric Theory and Practice in Papua New Guinea --; 3; Madness and the Ambivalent Use of Psychiatry in the Kaugel Valley --; 4; Affliction and Madness --; 5; The Social Construction of Madness: Lopa's Season --; 6; The Social Construction of Madness: The Mad Giant --; Conclusion: In Anticipation of a Kakoli Ethnopsychiatry --; Appendix A; Orthography --; Appendix B; Glossary of Umbu Ungu Terms
N2  - "The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behaviour, not mental pathology. Moreover, their conception of the person did not recognise the same physical and mental categories that inform Western medical science, and psychiatry in particular was not officially introduced to PNG until the late 1950s. Its practitioners claimed that it could adequately accommodate the cultural variation among Melanesian societies. This book compares the intent and practice of transcultural psychiatry with Kakoli interpretations of, and responses to, madness, showing the reasons for their occasional recourse to psychiatric services. Episodes involving madness, as defined by the Kakoli themselves, are described in order to offer a context for the historical lifeworld and praxis of the community and raise fundamental questions about whether a culturally sensitive psychiatry is possible in the Melanesian context."--Publisher's website
ER  -