This paper deals with the relationship between sociocultural factors and psychopathology in
Hispanic groups in a disadvantaged urban area. The data were drawn from a 6-year …

Community psychiatry in order to be relevant today must involve all the behavioral sciences
in its work. Anthropologists were among the first to study religious and folk beliefs and their …

A mental health center's experience with folk healers in a Hispanic urban ghetto revealed a
culturally accepted belief system based on a body of empirical knowledge that helps its …

Psychotherapeutic healing exists in various cultures of the world. Each society contains built-
in sources of stress and conflict which are relieved in societally determined ways …

Despite the development of the community mental health movement, indigenous therapists
continue to provide an important health care resource in many communities. This is …

Large numbers of Caribbean people-Puerto Ricans, Jamaicans, Trinidadians, and other
West Indians have migrated to mainland United States, Canada, and England. Migration …

This paper examines a variant of Black ethnomedicine in urban areas, namely the complex
of prophets and advisors found within the Spiritual movement. Based upon fieldwork among …

All societies have developed ways of dealing with physical and mental illness, defined as
folk healing systems. The authors review the systems of folk healing that have evolved in …

Interest in folk psychiatric practices and beliefs has grown so rapidly in recent years that a
substantial corpus of reports, from anthropologists and psychiatrists alike, is now available …

The significant mental health needs and inadequate psychological services of rural
communities are described. Rural Americans are truly underserved in terms of mental health …