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Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 3, No. 2, 103-108 (1966)
DOI: 10.1177/136346156600300207

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POSSESSION ON THE NEW GUINEA HIGHLANDS: REVIEW OF LITERATURE by R. SALISBURY, Montreal, Canada. Mimeo graph, 7 pp

SALISBURY deals with a behavioral syndrome (possession state) widespread in the New Guinea Highlands. He comprehensively reviews the literature on this disorder, presents a number of illustrative case histories based on his own observations, subjects all the cases reported to a cultural analysis, and offers an explanation of why such culturally sanctioned dissociational states should exist. PFEIFFER'S psychiatric observations in Indonesia have been reported upon in previous issues of this Review (Transcultural Psychiatric Research, No. I4, I963, 2I-22; No. I5, I963, 32-36; II, October I965, I06-9). The article presented in this issue describes symptomatological features noted in Indonesian patients, the attitude of the population towards the mentally ill, and indigenous treatment procedures. Sociocultural factors in the etiology of mental illness in general and the effect of recent cultural change in particular are also discussed. In contin uation of his previous studies concerning Central Australian Aborigines ( Transcultural Psychiatric Research, II, October I965, I04-6), CAWTE explores the frequency and nature of mental disorders in the Eastern Aranda people.


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