Depressionen som fattigdommens og underudviklingens symptom: Et case-studie af en colombiansk landsby

Abstract

Eisass, P. (1988). Depression as a symptom of poverty and underdevelopment; a casestudy of a Colombian village. Nordisk Psykologi, 40, 345–357.

The author has stayed several times in an isolated Colombian village, inhabited by Indians who have left their original cultural background. The villagers are characterized by a widespread depressive symptomatology. They do not consider themselves mental patients in need of therapy, but consult Indian shamans for healing. A psychological description must therefore use the anthropological differentiation between disease and illness in order to take people's own experience of their symptomatology into account.