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Folk psychiatry of the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation
Magic, faith, and healing; studies in primitive psychiatry today • New York • Published In 1964 • Pages: 384-419
By: Boyer, L. Bryce.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, the work of a psychoanalyst, outlines those elements of Apache socialization practices and childhood experience which the author considers most central to personality formation, linking childhood trauma to adult personality disorder. Attention is then turned to Apache beliefs in the supernatural, conceptualization of disease, and the roles of shaman and witch. The concluding sections employ psychoanalytic method in relating the belief system to the modal personality structure.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Revelation and divination
- Ethnopsychology
- Sickness
- Behavior processes and personality
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mescalero Apache
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physician
- Psychologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Jan Simpson ; Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1961
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mescalero Indian Reservation, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- L. Bryce Boyer
- The footnotes containing bibliographic references have been filed in Category 113.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64016960
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mescalero Indians