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Folk psychiatry of the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservationessay 1964 • Boyer, L. Bryce
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
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, l...Effects of acculturation on the vicissitudes of the aggressive drive among the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservationessay 1972 • Boyer, L. Bryce & Boyer, Ruth MacDonald
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
Using psychoanalytically oriented investigative interviews, Rorschach tests, and participant observation, the authors describe both aboriginal and modern techniques of socialization and their ...Shamanism and peyote use among the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservationessay 1973 • Boyer, L. Bryce et al.
Mescalero Apache • North America > Southwest and Basin
Boyer et al. examine peyote use among the Apache of the Mescalero Reservation, and more specifically attempt to explain why its use, as well as the shamanistic use of hallucinogens, has been a...