Book
Bengali conceptions of mental illness
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1992 • Pages:
By: Bhattacharyya, Deborah Poole, Poole, Deborah.
Abstract
This dissertation, written as a contribution to the growing literature in ethnopsychiatry, examines Bengali folk concepts of mental illness. Bhattacharyya's research on this subject employs a theoretical orientation based on the sociology of knowledge of Alfred Schutz, used in combination with the author's ethnographic methodological design. 'The primary aim of the study is to delineate the meaning of the psychiatric domain in Bengali culture phenomenologically or from the point of the actors themselves' (p. 1). In general, the research as presented here, explores the relationship between knowledge and social behavior. Social activity is analyzed '…within the psychiatric domain and the knowledge which exists as the emergent social product of that activity' (pp. 19-20). This knowledge is then analyzed in terms of those ethnopsychiatric theories that form an integral part of the internal structure of the psychiatric domain and which places that domain within the socio-cultural context.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- South Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Sociologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1992
- Field Date
- 1975-1976 [p. 29]
- Coverage Date
- 1975-76
- Coverage Place
- Calcutta, West Bengal, India
- Notes
- [by] Deborah P. Bhattacharyya
- UM: AAC8119041
- Bibliography: p. 286-299. Includes glossary.
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Indiana University, 1981
- LCSH
- Bengalis