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(Ng)amukRevisited: Emotional Expression and Mental Illness in Central Java, Indonesia

Kevin Browne

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Researchers of ‘amuk’ behavior in Southeast Asia have normally adopted either a psychiatric or ethno-behavioral position, both of which impose an outside theoretical model. An ethnopsychological view of (ng)amuk in Java reveals it to be a poetic idiom of distress, reflecting cultural anxieties about mental illness, aggression, loss of control and vulnerability of the self. Ngamuk as mental/social suffering in Java occurs in a political context that promotes strong repression of emotion and dissent. A model of ngamuk as an exegesis of mental/social distress, reflecting everyday experiences of anxiety, vulnerability, danger and transgression, is proposed.

Key Words: (ng)amuk • culture-bound syndromes • emotion • idiom of distress • mental illness • self

Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 38, No. 2, 147-165 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/136346150103800201
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