Cultural Specificity in Patterns of Mental Illness and Health: A Slovak-American Case Study |
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| Authors: | HOWARD F. STEIN PH.D. |
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| Affiliation: | The field research upon which this paper is based was done in several Slovak-American mill town communities in Western Pennsylvania during the period January, 1970, through December, 1971. The research was funded by a Maurice Falk Medical Fund fellowship. Department of Psychiatry, Meharry Medical College, Community Mental Health Center, Nashville, Tennessee. |
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| Abstract: | Mental illness and mental health are conceptualized as dynamic opposites o/a single, underlying psycho-cultural process. An illustrative case history of a Slovak-American family with a schizophrenic member is presented. |
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