Diagnosis and distress in navajo healing

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 585-596

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

^a Department of Anthropology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture and psychiatric disorder; Diagnosis; Navajo mental health; Psychiatric anthropology; Psychotherapy analogy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELIGION; ADDICTION; ALCOHOLISM; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANXIETY DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SPIRITUAL HEALING; SYMBOLISM; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

MESCALINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CHRISTIANITY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FAITH HEALING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MENTAL DISORDERS; MESCALINE; MIDDLE AGED; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 56149093186     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181812c68     Document Type: Article

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