CONTENTS V 



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Pabt 6. Psychiatric Disorders of Childhood 257 



Child psychiatry 257 



General introduction 257 



"Organic" conditions 257 



Deviant children 260 



"Functional" disturbances 260 



Case material 267 



Borderline psychoses of young shamans 282 



Part 7. Suicide 286 



General introduction 286 



The theoretical framework 290 



Methodological aspects of Mohave suicide 290 



Methodological considerations 290 



Ethnopsychiatric aspects of Mohave suicide 298 



Sociocultural considerations 308 



Aboriginal conditions 308 



Suicide and cultural change 314 



Suicide and kilHng 327 



Psychosomatic suicide 329 



General considerations 329 



Prenatal suicide, or suicide during parturition 331 



Suicide at weaning (tavaknyi:k) 340 



Suicide of twins 348 



Social suicide 356 



Symbolic social suicide 357 



Summary 371 



Vicarious suicide 371 



Psychosocial dynamics of vicarious suicide 371 



Interplay of cultural and subjective factors in vicarious suicide. . 378 



The willing victims of witches 383 



Vicarious suicide of witches 387 



Case material 401 



Vicarious suicide of braves 426 



Funeral suicide 43 1 



Conclusions 454 



Case material 454 



Active suicide 459 



Case material 465 



Clustered cases 465 



Single cases 478 



Part 8. Conclusions 485 



Genesis and validity of Mohave psychiatry 485 



The genesis of Mohave psychiatry 485 



The validity of Mohave psychiatry 488 



Appendix. The Function of Alcohol 605 



Addendum 549 



BibUography 553 



Index 569 



