CULTURAL INDUCTION OF STRESS,by MARVIN K. OPLFR in Psychological Stress. MORTIMER M. APLEY and RICHARD TRUMBULL,eds.,New York,U.S.A.: Meredith Publishing Company,I967,2I3-33

Abstract

This section opens with a review of a study by M. K. OPLER who stresses the importance of knowing social, familistic and cultural processes in order to discover a relational system between culturally induced stresses and psycho pathology. H. B. M. MURPHY argues that the ways in which culture influences the development of delusion are more varied and more potent than are usually realized. N. A. CHANCE et al. compare Eskimo and Taiwan groups in relation to the hypothesis that more symptoms of personality maladjustment are to be found among people who identify with a modern society but who have little contact with that society, than among those who have a greater amount of intercultural contacts. Finally, a crosscultural analysis of types of explanations of disturbed behavior held in different societies is presented by J. D. DENKO.