Abstract
In 1966, a group of Asian and Western psychiatrists and social scientists met at the East-West Center in Honolulu to discuss problems and results of mental health research in Asia and the Pacific. The proceedings of this conference have been compiled and edited by W. CAUDILL and TSUNG-YI-LIN. A review of their book ushers in this section. J. G. DRAGUNS and his associates have extended their studies, regarding the relationship between social competence and psychiatric symptomatology, to Japan and have carried out a cross cultural comparison between observations made in Japan and the United States. S. IWAWAKI and his colleagues compared anxiety test data obtained from Japanese children with test data obtained in other countries, especially in the United States. Explanations for cross-cultural differences are offered and discussed. B. H. KRAMER'S study, carried out in West Malaysia, attempts to describe and analyze the role of a traditional healing ceremony called Main Puteri. The author concludes that this ceremony is more successful in treating depressed Malaysian patients than are the techniques of "modern" psycho therapy.
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