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CONTENTS 



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Introduction 1 



Acknowledgments 4 



Informants and interpreters 5 



Names 6 



Abbreviations and symbols 7 



Phonetic system 8 



Part 1. Fundamentals of Mohave Psychiatry 9 



Etiological theories 9 



Nosology 17 



Diagnosis and treatment 24 



The position of the insane in Mohave society 35 



Part 2. Disorders of the Instincts 39 



Aggression and guilt 39 



Pathological outbursts of homicidal rage 40 



Pi-ipa: tceva: ram (people scarcity), due to premature death. 40 



Pathological sequelae of socially approved aggression 42 



Against game: hunter's neurosis 42 



Against the outgroup: ahwe: ma: n, scalper's psychosis 43 



Against antisocial members of the ingroup: witch killer's 



psychosis 45 



Pathological sequelae of hyperactivity 46 



An illness of ordinarily active persons 49 



The god Mastamho's psychosis 50 



The psychopathology of singers 54 



.The corruption of shamanistic powers 56 



Pathological sequelae of inhibited aggressivity or power 56 



Hi:waitck (heartbreak) 57 



Psychoses resulting from the inhibition of magical powers 57 



Disorders of the sexual impulse 71 



Atcoo:r hanyienk 72 



Confirmatory case material 75 



Sudhu :rk 76 



Ya tcahaetk 77 



Kamalo:y tarainyk 81 



Insanity resulting from magical courtship 83 



Insanity caused by incest 87 



Sexual insanity resulting frOm witchcraft 87 



Appendix: the perversions 89 



Part 3. Mood Disturbances 90 



The "heart" neuroses 90 



Hi:wa itck (hi: wa itce itc him) 91 



Case material 96 



Informal therapy of hi:wa itck 97 



Interpretation 101 



Hi:wa mava:rkh 106 



Hi:wahisa:hk (heart rot) 114 



Hi:wa hira:uk 115 



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