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Three Cases of Psychosis Among the Eskimos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Morton I. Teicher
Morton I. Teicher*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry; School of Social Work University of Toronto; Toronto Psychiatric Hospital
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The study of actual instances of psychosis among non-literate peoples can enhance our understanding of the relationship between mental illness and the society in which it occurs. Analysis of case histories may enable us to see how social, biological and psychological factors reciprocally influence each other to produce mental disease. Some light may be thrown on the question whether or not there is a common nucleus of aberration which is universally manifested.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 100 , Issue 419 , April 1954 , pp. 527 - 535
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1954 

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