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The role of aggression in the etiology of various types of suicide 

 is discussed only in part 7. Inhibited jealousy, as exemplified by 

 hi : wa itck, will be described in connection with other disorders of 

 mood ( = "heart"). In a more remote way, psychopathological phe- 

 nomena connected with funeral rites (pt. 4, pp. 186-195) and with the 

 ghosts of the dead (pt. 4, pp. 175-184) are also related to aggi-ession, 

 and, specifically, to fears of coimter aggression, but, for reasons of 

 expository convenience, are discussed in separate sections. 



PATHOLOGICAL OUTBURSTS OF HOMICIDAL RAGE 

 pi-ipa: tceva: ram (people scarcity), due to premature death 



Homicide is extremely rare among the Mohave Indians. The only 

 recorded instances involve the killing of witches, discussed in part 7, 

 one homicide committed while the murderer was intoxicated (Ap- 

 pendix, pp. 505-548), and some assaults followed by suicide (pt. 7, pp. 

 459-484). 



The occurrence of amok-running and of impulsive mass-murders 

 was denied by Tcatc, as well as by Hilyera Anyay. 



According to Tcatc : 



There is another kind of insanity which is caused neither by suma : tc (dream), 

 nor by ahwe: hahnok (foreign disease), nor by hi : wa itck (heartbreak). A 

 person suffering from this illness just dreams that he killed someone, or is 

 being killed by someone. Then he goes crazy. He acts exactly as though he 

 had ahwe: nyevedhi : (foreign ghost). He awakens from his dream and runs. 

 It takes a good while before he gets sane again. Such people are very nervous, 

 even when they are among their own relatives. People say that such persons 

 are suma : tc itcem (dream bad or miss) or pi-ipa : tceva : ram (people scarcity). 

 The shaman who has the power to doctor ahwe: nyevedhi: (foreign ghost) or 

 hikwi: r sama : nyevedhi: (snake? ghost), which resembles the ahwe: illness, or 

 matkodha : u (bewitching), all of which resemble this disease, can also cure this 

 illness. 



CASE 2 (Informant: Tcatc) : 



There was a case of such an insanity at Needles, Calif., which was not treated 

 by any American physician. A certain man would get sudden fits of rage, take 

 a stick and beat up people. He lived apart from others. The Mohave tried to 

 cure him, and a shaman, who specialized in the treatment of colds and pneu- 

 monia, was called in to sing for him. He sat down, at a little distance from the 

 patient, and sang for him, but the sick man immediately went away. Even- 

 tually this man's mother discovered him dead from cold and exposure. 



Comment 



Tentative diagnosis. — The case history suggests a fuguelike state, 

 which may have been either psychogenic, or an epilepsy equiva- 

 lent, or else — less probably — a fugue while the patient was delirious 

 as a result of some toxic or infectious disease. By contrast, the formal 

 description of this illness suggests primarily either a severe anxiety 



