Disciplined Hearts: History, Identity, and Depression in an American Indian Community

by Theresa DeLeane O'Nell

Book Overview

"This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70-80% of our people are depressed." When she arrived at the Flathead Reservation in Montana to start an ethnographic study of depression, medical anthropologist Theresa DeLeane O'Nell repeatedly encountered such statements. This astonishingly widespread concern propelled the author into the complex lives of these modern American Indian people and into the historical roots...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520214463
• ISBN13: 9780520214460
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Facinating

I highly recommend this book. It is a pertinent analysis when focussing on native american depression from a psychological point of view as well as an incorporation of native people's own perception of depression and the reasons why.