Psychiatric Disorders in the Walbiri, Central Australia

1 March 1967

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Vol. 1 (1) , 14-22
https://doi.org/10.3109/00048676709160883

Abstract

A survey is reported of psychiatric disorders in an Australian Aboriginal tribal group of 650 persons residing at Yuendumu, Central Australia. Methods of case detection and criteria of inclusion of cases are described. Clinical summaries of all affected individuals are supplied and the frequency distribution of psychiatric illness by age, sex, diagnosis and severity is presented. The survey results are discussed and related to sociocultural circumstances of the Walbiri people and to epidemiological findings from other parts of the world.

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