Ethnopsychology is an interdisciplinary field linking cultural and social anthropology with psychology. Popular culture expresses ethnopsychological processes. This proposition is illustrated through a preliminary analysis of verbal content of American “country and western” song titles and lyrics. Implications for classification in psychopathology and treatment are presented.
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