Women as healers, women as patients : mental health care and traditional healing in Puerto Rico /
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| Author / Creator: | Koss-Chioino, Joan |
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| Imprint: | Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1992. |
| Description: | xx, 237 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1396267 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Edward F. Foulks
- 1. The Setting and the Subjects
- 2. Backgrounds of the Healers in the Therapist-Spiritist Training Project
- 3. Callings: Healers' Initiatory Experiences
- 4. Healers' Work
- 5. The Distaff Side: Pitfalls and Problems of Being a Healer
- 6. Psychiatric Illness, Emotional Disorder, and Women's Experience
- 7. Dysphoric Mood and Depression
- 8. Madness and Schizophrenia
- 9. Nerves and Anxiety Disorders
- 10. Somatic Styles, Bodily Ills, and Somatoform Disorders
- 11. Approaching the Self Through Illness and Healing.
