A Culturally Patterned Depression in a Mother after Loss of a Child

1 February 1975

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Psychiatry: Interpersonal & Biological Processes

Vol. 38 (1) , 92-95
https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.1975.11023838

Abstract

The phenomenology of clinical psychiatric syndromes is conditioned by the cultural ambience of the patient. This paper describes a reactive depression in an Amerindian woman (Trio group) of Surinam, which followed the form, onset, and outcome prescribed by her tribal tradition.

Keywords

CHILD
MOTHER
CULTURALLY PATTERNED
PATTERNED DEPRESSION
AMERINDIAN
PSYCHIATRIC
LOSS
TRIO
PHENOMENOLOGY
WOMAN

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