Cultural Cognition and Psychopathology / Edition 1

by John F. Schumaker, Tony Ward

Overview

An interdisciplinary volume which draws together the concepts of culture and cognition in the wider context of psychopathology. It provides new perspectives on the etiology, treatment, and prevention of psychopathology by challenging current individualistic models and assumptions, while offering new theoretical formulations that take account of the cultural foundation of the cognition process.

This book is divided into three sections. The first offers a history of the existing shortsighted models that see the individual as the source of pathological cognitions. The second section is comprised of nine chapters that examine selected mental disorders. The final section examines the implications of new models that take account of cultural sources of cognition. This book will be of interest to clinical and cross-cultural psychology; anthropology, sociology, and professionals in psychology, social services, and public health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275966041
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/30/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Lexile:	1390L (what's this?)

About the Author

JOHN F. SCHUMAKER is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand./e

TONY WARD is an Associate Professor of Psychology and coordinator of the forensic doctoral program in the Department of Criminology at the University of Melbourbane, Australia./e

Table of Contents

Introduction
Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
Culture, Cognition, and Psychological Individualism by Tod Sloan
Cultural Cognition and Psychopathology: Anthropological Perspectives by Harvey Whitehouse
Cultural Sources of Cognition by Charles Nuckolls
Cultural Cognition and Specific Disorders
Cultural Cognition and Depression by John F. Schumaker
The Cognitive Socialization of Stress and Anxiety by Joseph Westermeyer and Eric Dieperink
The Role of Cultural Cognition in Substance Abuse and Alcoholism by M. Dawn Terrell
Eating Disorders, Culture, and Cognition by Myra Cooper
Cognitive Enculturation and Sexual Abuse by Gordon C. Nagayama Hall and Amber H. Phung
Culture, Cognition, and Trauma: Cross-cultural Evaluations by Pittu Laungani
Cultural Risk Factors in Personality Disorders by Joel Paris
Culture, Cognition, and Dissociative Identity Disorders by Martin J. Dorahy
Culture, Cognition, and Schizophrenia by Richard J. Siegert
Applications and Implications
Translating Cultural Observations into Psychotherapy: A Functional Approach by Junko Tanaka-Matsumi, Douglas Y. Seiden and Ka Nei Lam
Culture and Cognitive Theory: Toward a Reformulation by Jo Thakker and Russil Durrant
Toward a New Model of Symptom Formation: Implicit Theories and Sexual Offending by Tony Ward and Thomas Keenan
Cultural Assumptions, Social Justice , and Mental Health: Challenging The Status Quo by Isaac Prilleltensky
Index

Editorial Reviews

Culture as an influence on individuals has been largely omitted in psychoanalysis due to Freud's focus on the instinctual motivation of the individual, without consideration of the role society plays. Schumaker (U. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand) and Ward (U. of Melbourne, Australia) begin to redress this omission here with 16 contributions from psychologists and psychiatrists. Arrangement is in three parts: theoretical and historical perspectives, cultural cognition and specific disorders, and applications and implications. The disorders discussed are: depression, anxiety, substance and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, sexual abuse, trauma, personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder, and schizophrenia. In part three, the authors offer models and functional approaches to incorporating culture into psychoanalysis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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