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dc.contributor.authorOrtley, John
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-08T19:23:10Z
dc.date.available2021-10-08T19:23:10Z
dc.date.issued2007-05-31
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/32078
dc.descriptionThesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Indigenous Nations Studies, 2007.en_US
dc.description.abstractMy 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.publisherUniversity of Kansasen_US
dc.rightsThis item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author.en_US
dc.subjectSocial sciencesen_US
dc.subjectPsychologyen_US
dc.titleConfusing culture for clinic: Indigenous shaman-healer as psychopathologyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineIndigenous Nations Studies
dc.thesis.degreeLevelM.A.
kusw.bibid6599242
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccessen_US


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