Salish Indian mental health and culture change : psychohygienic and therapeutic aspects of the guardian spirit ceremonial

Summary: "The purpose of this book is to elicit and define the psychohygienic and therapeutic aspects of the Salish Guardian Spirit Ceremonial, and to evaluate the relative importance of these aspects in traditional and contemporary Coast Salish culture, both for the individual and the collective." -- page v

Record details

ISBN: 0039280381 (softcover) :
Physical Description: ix, 131 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
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Publisher: Toronto : Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, [1974]
Copyright: ©1974

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-131).

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: The revival of spirit dancing in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia -- Chapter Three: The achievement of altered states of consciousness in the Salish guardian spirit complex as documented in ethnographic literature -- Spirit experience and possession -- Spirit quest -- Spirit illness -- Spirit dance initiation -- Chapter Four -- Contemporary spirit illness and anomic depression -- Chapter Five: The therapeutic process of contemporary spirit dance initiation -- Death and rebirth -- Therapeutic myth -- Chapter Six: Annual winter therapy -- Group therapy -- Psychodrama -- Physical exercise -- Chapter Seven: Therapeutic effectiveness -- Chapter Eight: From psychohygienic ritual to ritual psychotherapy -- Chapter Nine: Modern spirit dancing as a therapeutic social movement