You Never Know What They Might Do

Mental Illness in Outport Newfoundland

By Paul S. Dinham
Series: Social and Economic Studies
Publisher: ISER Books
Paperback : 9780919666191, 104 pages, January 1977

Description

How do villagers look upon mental illness? How do the 'sick' among them avoid hospitalization in the "mental"? This fieldwork study by a sociologist stresses the necessity of taking cultural factors into account in diagnosing mental disorders.