Depressive illness and Navajo healing

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 571-597

  Storck, Michael ^a   Csordas, Thomas J ^b   Strauss, Milton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Narrative; Navajo; Psychiatry; Religious healing

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ANECDOTES; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRISTIANITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALING; MIDDLE AGED; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SHAMANISM; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034572702     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2000.14.4.571     Document Type: Article

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