本研究は, 先行研究が手薄な「90年代以降の文化精神医学と文化人類学・医療人類学の接続領域の成立と拡大展開の過程」を実態調査と文献調査から明らかにし, 「文化人類学の文化概念に意義ある刷新契機をもたらす 展開がこの接続領域で生じてきている経過」の解明・分析を試みた。補助線となる研究として, 1955年にカナダ McGill大学で設置されたTranscultural Psychiatryの第4段階に亘る歩み, 特に90年代以降顕著に変容したこの学派の研究, および, カナダと日本, オランダ, シンガポール, ベトナムの文化精神医学とそれに関わる治療文化状況の概略比較を試みた。
This research focuses on "Development of the Connection Region between Cultural Psychiatry and Cultural/Medial Anthropology, and Refurbishment of the Culture Concept in the Age of Increasing Globalization." Based on participant observation, key-informants interviews with regards to cultural psychiatrists mostly, and indigenous healers and their medical anthropological researchers in part, the research intends to clarify the newly appearing intercultural processes as embedded in cultural psychiatric practices after the 1990s. The scope of newly arising innovation of culture concept as embedded in these processes has turned out a significant research momentum for revitalizing the connection region between cultural psychiatry and cultural/medical anthropology. The arrays of socio-cultural characteristics as found in the regional trends in cultural psychiatry with reference to alternative therapies with regards to Canada, Japan, Holland, Singapore,Vietnam have been scrutinized.
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