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Long-Term Psychiatric Clients in an American Community: Some Sociocultural Factors in Chronic Mental Illness

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Clinically Applied Anthropology

Part of the book series: Culture, Illness, and Healing ((CIHE,volume 5))

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Clinically relevant anthropological research began with the psychiatric work of Gregory Bateson (1956), William Caudill (1958), and Jules Henry (1964, 1973). Caudill encountered sociocultural systems among psychiatric patients and staff, documenting their influence on the experience of hospital treatment. Henry focused more on individual patients and their families, exploring the interpersonal and psychodynamic factors which contributed to psychosis and hospital adaptation. Bateson developed ideas about the contribution of paradox, contradiction, and confused communication to schizophrenia from his clinical interactions with patients and their families. Our ancestors set precedents in theory, methodology, fmding and application of results which are not only reflected by contemporary research, but legitimate the pertinence and usefulness of such work.

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    Noel J. Chrisman

  2. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA

    Thomas W. Maretzki

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Estroff, S.E. (1982). Long-Term Psychiatric Clients in an American Community: Some Sociocultural Factors in Chronic Mental Illness. In: Chrisman, N.J., Maretzki, T.W. (eds) Clinically Applied Anthropology. Culture, Illness, and Healing, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9180-0_14

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