dc.contributor.author | Ortley, John | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-08T19:23:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-10-08T19:23:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-05-31 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/32078 | |
dc.description | Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Indigenous Nations Studies, 2007. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | My Master's thesis is an examination of the way in which anomalous behaviors commonly associated with indigenous shaman-healers might be associated with mental illness by western psychiatry. This out-dated western ethnocentric ideology is currently active as a diagnostic entry 3.8 Shamanic Crisis within the American Psychiatric Association's, 1994 Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV. The general cross-cultural descriptions of mental illness by mental health professionals in charge of the DSM-IV, have allowed such diagnoses to remain haphazardly confirmed by a western medical model, based on a non-universal, Euro-centric theories and definitions of disease. That lack of cross-cultural consideration within the Indian Health Service (IHS) has to change in order to provide quality professional care. My intent is to bolster a more cross-culturally sensitive view of these anomalous behaviors that does not fully support strict abnormal medical or physiological properties. | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | en_US |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | en_US |
dc.subject | Social sciences | en_US |
dc.subject | Psychology | en_US |
dc.title | Confusing culture for clinic: Indigenous shaman-healer as psychopathology | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Indigenous Nations Studies | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | M.A. | |
kusw.oanotes | 2021/09/27: Added to KU ScholarWorks at the request of the department and, when still covered by copyright, with the permission of the author. | en_US |
kusw.bibid | 6599242 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |