Provide an example of how mental illness and therapy are culturally constructed.
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The textbook gives the historical examples of the Cree Eskimos and Ojibwa Indians of Canada who occasionally suffer from a psychosis known aswitigo, or devil-caused cannibalism. The first symptoms are usually a loss of appetite, vomiting, and diarrhea, as well as the person’s morbid fear that she or he has been possessed by awitigo,or witch, who consumes human flesh. The affected individual becomes withdrawn, brooding, and cannot eat or sleep. The person’s family, fearing for their very lives, immediately calls in a “witch doctor” to cast out thewitigoby saying magic words or casting spells.
Modern, western, and urban views of psychological disorders tend to deny the influence of outside spirits or unknown forces on our thoughts and behavior. These views assume that there are known (or knowable) physical, psychological, and social causes for our responses. And they believe that once we know the causes we can control the responses.
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