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Psychiatry with the Aborigines of West Malaysia
- Source :
- American Journal of Psychiatry. 130:769-773
- Publication Year :
- 1973
- Publisher :
- American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 1973.
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Abstract
- The authors report on a year's experience with psychiatric patients from aborigine tribes in West Malaysia. Of the 20 cases seen, all but one were psychotic and 16 were also classified as schizophrenic. Withdrawal and running away were common symptom patterns. Only one patient came from a deep jungle area; the others were from fringe areas where sociocultural disruption was more evident. Because of a good preexisting medical service, these patients were easily managed in a hospital that emphasized their own culture. Follow-up in the jungle or villages by aborigine staff members and the use of long-acting injectable phenothiazines resulted in continued improvement of the patients.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Paranoid Disorders
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Culture
Running away
Phenothiazines
Ethnicity
Fluphenazine
Jungle
medicine
Humans
Psychiatry
Sociocultural evolution
Service (business)
business.industry
Malaysia
Middle Aged
Hospitals
Hospitalization
Psychiatry and Mental health
Psychotic Disorders
Schizophrenia
Female
business
Stress, Psychological
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15357228 and 0002953X
- Volume :
- 130
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Psychiatry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cb9a21da00cfbe549412efe34f3f3026