Social and Cultural Influences on Mental Health in Aboriginal Australia: A Summary of Ten Years' Research

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Cawte, J.E. 1964. Tjmi and Tjagolo: ethnopsychiatry in the Kalumburu people of north-western Australia, Oceania, 34: 170-90.

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—. 1964. A psychiatric service in the north, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 2 (June): 20--32.

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—. 1966. Australian Aborigines in mental hospitals. Part I: Available statistics, 1954-63, Oceania, 36: 264-72.

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—. 1968. Malgri: a phenomenon in transcultural psychiatry, Image, Roche, pp. 28, 29-32.

—. 1968. The human ecology of the arid zone, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1: 2-6.

—. 1968. Further comment on the Australian subincision ceremony (with photographic illustrations, by M. J. Barnett), American Anthropologist, 70(5): 961-64.

—. 1968. Children of Arnhem Land. Color-Sound Film , 16 mm. 22 mins.

—. 1969. Psychological adjustment to cultural change: the case of the Australian Aborigines, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 3: 343-47.

—. 1969. A cruel, poor and brutal nation. In I. Pilowsky and D. Maddison , eds., Psychiatry and the Community. Sydney: Sydney University Press.

—. 1970. Aboriginal law and medicine. In D. I. Cassidy and R. Young , eds., The Proceedings of the Medico-Legal Society (Vol. 4).

—. 1971. Australia 10,000 years B.P.: mental health in primitive societies, Mental Health in Australia, 4(2): 60-67.

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—. 1973. Multidisciplinary teamwork in ethnopsychiatry research . In R. de la Fuente and M. N. Weisman, eds., Proceedings of V World Congress of Psychiatry, Mexico. Amsterdam: Excerpta Medica.

—. 1973. Social medicine in central Australia. The opportunities of Pitjantjara Aborigines, Medical Journal of Australia, 1: 221-31.

—. 1973. Fertility patterns in Australian Aborigines: implications for contemporary medical policy. In Clinical Proceedings of International Planned Parenthood Federation. Published as a book by the Australian and New Zealand Journal, of Obstetrics and Gynaecology , Sydney.

—. 1973. Aboriginal Healing. Color-Sound Film, 16 mm. 45 mins.

—. 1973. Aboriginal Mourning. Color-Sound Film , 16 mm. 22 mins.

—. 1975. Malgri, a culture-bound syndrome. In W. P. Lebra , ed., Culture-bound Syndromes, Ethnopsychiatry and Alternate Therapies. Honolulu: East-West Center Press. (In press.)

—. 1975. Australian Aboriginal medicine before European contact , Annals of Internal Medicine, 82(3): 422-23.

—. 1975. The human ecology of the arid zone, Medical Journal of Australia, 1(8): 221-24.

—. 1975. Psychosexual and cultural determinants of fertility choice behavior, American Journal of Psychiatry, 132(7): 750-53.

Cawte, J.E. , Bianchi, G.N. , and Kiloh, L.G. 1968. Personal discomfort in Australian Aborigines, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2: 69-79.

Cawte, J.E. , Djagamara, N. , and Barrett, M.J. 1966. The meaning of subincision of the urethra to Aboriginal Australians, British Journal of Medical Psychology, 39: 245-53.

Cawte, J.E. , and Kamien, M. 1974. The doctor as a social change agent in Bourke, New South Wales. In B. S. Hetzel , M. Dobbin , L. Lippman , and E. Eggleston , eds., Better Health for Aborigines? Brisbane: Queensland University Press.

Cawte, J.E. , and Kidson, M.A. 1964. Australian Ethnopsychiatry: The Walbiri Doctor, Medical Journal of Australia, 2: 977-83.

—. 1965. Ethnopsychiatry in central Australia, II. The evolution of illness in a Walbiri lineage, British Journal of Psychiatry , 3: 1079-85.

Cawte, J.E. , and Kiloh, L.G. 1967. Language and pictorial representation in Aboriginal children. Implications for transcultural psychiatry, Social Science and Medicine, 1: 67-76. Also in G. E. Kearney, P. R. de Lacey, and G. R. Davidson eds., The Psychology of Aboriginal Australians. Sydney: Wiley (1973).

Eastwell, H.B. 1973. Traditional healing in modern Amhem Land, Medical Journal of Australia, 2: 1011-16.

—. 1974. Dilemmas of Aboriginal marriage in East Arnhem Land, North Australia, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry , 8: 49-53.

—. 1975. Projection as the dominant defence in Aboriginal anxiety. In Abstracts of the First Pacific Congress of Psychiatry Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry .

Gault, Edna I. 1968. Psychiatric and behavioral disturbances in adolescent Aborigines in Victoria, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2: 128-33.

—. 1969. Attitudes of Aboriginal adolescents in Victoria. In S. S. Dunn and C. M. Tatz , eds., Aborigines and Education. Melbourne: Sun Books.

Gault, E.I. , Krupinski, J. , and Stoller, A. 1970. Psychosocial problems of adolescent Aborigines in Victoria , Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 4: 24-33.

—. 1974 Psychosocial problems of Aboriginal adolescents and their socio-cultural environment, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 4: 174. Gray, A. 1974. Aboriginal Family Education Centres. Van Leer Foundation. Department of Adult Education, University of Sydney.

Jones, I.H. 1969. Subincision among Australian Western Desert Aborigines , British Journal of Medical Psychology, 42: 183-90.

—. 1971. Stereotyped aggression in a group of Australian Western Desert Aborigines, British Journal of Medical Psychology, 44: 259-66.

—. 1971. Ethnology and psychiatry, Australian and New Zeawnd Journal of Psychiatry, 5: 258-63.

—. 1972. Psychiatric disorders among Western Desert Aborigines , Social Science and Medicine, 6: 263-67.

—. 1972. Diagnosis of psychiatric disorders among tribal Aborigines , Medical Journal of Australia, 1: 345-49.

—. 1973. Psychiatric disorders among desert and Kimberley people, News-letter of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, May: 17-20.

—. 1973. Psychiatric disorders among Australian Aborigines, Social Science and Medicine, 7: 219-28.

—. 1975. Stress-induced states among tribal Aborigines: psychiatric and psychosomatic correlates. In G. E. Kearney , and D. W. McElwain , eds., Aboriginal Cognition: Retrospect and Prospect. Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

Kahn, M.W. and Delk, J.L. 1973. Developing a community mental health clinic on an Indian reservation, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 19: 299-306.

Kamien, M. 1975. The doctor as an agent of change. Unpublished M.D. thesis, The University of New South Wales. Ms. in the Department of Medicine, The University of Western Australia.

—. 1975. The social role of the community psychiatrist in rural Australia: from rejection to acceptance, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 9: 15-20.

—. 1975. Attitudes to family planning in an Australian rural community before the development of a familv planning service, Medical Journal of Australia, Special Supplement on Aboriginal Health 2, 1: 19-21.

—. 1975. Family planning in a part-Aboriginal community 1970 to 1973, Medical Journal of Australia, Special Supplement on Aboriginal Health 2, 1: 21-25.

—. 1975. The social psychology of family planning in a part-Aboriginal rural community, 1970 to 1973. Medical Journal of Australia, Special Supplement on Aboriginal Health 2. 1: 25-28.

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Leighton, Alexander H. 1974. The erosion of norms, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 8: 223-27.

Lickiss, J. Norelle. 1971. Social deviance in Aboriginal boys, Medical Journal of Australia, 2: 460-70.

—. 1973. Alcohol and Aborigines in cross-cultural situations, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 6: 210-16.

Mcelwain, D.W. 1975. Problems of problem-solving. In G. W. Kearney and D. W. McElwain , eds., Aboriginal Cognition: Retrospect and Prospect. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies .

Money, J. , Cawte, J.E. , Bianchi, G.N. , and Nurcombe, B. 1970. Sex training and traditions in Arnhem Land, British Journal of Medical Psychology, 43: 383-99.

Money, J. , and Nurcombe, B. 1974. Ability tests correlate with cultural heritage: the Bender and draw-a-person tests in Aboriginal Australia, Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7: 297-303.

Nurcombe, B. 1968. Precausal and paracausal thinking. Concepts of causality in Aboriginal children, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 4: 70-81.

—. 1972. Childbearing traditional and contemporary. In J. E. Cawte , Cruel, Poor and Brutal Nations . Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii.

—. 1972. The children in difficulties. In J. E. Cawte , Cruel, Poor and Brutal Nations. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii.

—. 1973. Childhood and adolescence on Elcho Island, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 7: 84-86.

Nurcombe, B. , Bianchi, G.N. , Money, J. , and Cawte, J.E. 1970. A hunger for stimuli: the psychosocial background of petrol inhalation, British Journal of Medical Psychology, 43: 367-74.

Nurcombe, B. , and Cawte, J.E. 1967. Patterns of behavior disorder among children of an Aboriginal population, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry , 1: 119-33.

Nurcombe, B. , De Lacey, P.R. , Moffitt, P. , and Taylor, L. 1972. The question of aboriginal intelligence: the first three years of the Bourke pre-school experiment, Medical Journal of Australia, 2: 625-30.

Moffitt, P. , Nurcombe, B. , Passmore, M. , and Mcneilly, P. 1973. Intervention in cultural deprivation. In G. E. Kearney , P. R. De Lacey , and G. R. Davidson , eds., The Psychology of Aboriginal Australians. Sydney: John Wiley and Sons Australasia.

Sommerlad, E.A. , and Berry, J.W. 1970. The role of ethnic identification in distinguishing between attitudes toward assimilation and integration of a minority racial group, Human Relations, 23: 23-29.

Watts , Betty, H. 1970. Some determinants of the educational progress of Aboriginal children, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 4: 100-08.

—. 1973. Personality factors in the academic success of Australian Aboriginal girls. In G. E. Kearney , P. R. De Lacey , and G. R. Davidson , eds., The Psychology of Aboriginal Australians . Sydney: John Wiley and Sons Australasia . Williams, D. 1975. Ordinal sealing or prescriptions and descriptions of behavior in an Aboriginal community. In G. E. Kearney , and D. W. McElwain , eds., Aboriginal Cognition: Retrospect and Prospect . Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

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—. 1976. The cultural promotion of associative illnes in Aboriginals . Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (in press).

Hippler, A. 1976. Inferences from Rorschach responses among three Australian Aboriginal groups (in preparation).

—. 1976. A culture and personality perspective of northeastern Arnhem Land Aborigines (in preparation).

Kahn, M.W. , and Cawte, J.E. 1976. Developing a mental health clinic in an Aboriginal community in Australia ( in press).