(Ng)amuk Revisited: Emotional Expression and Mental Illness in Central Java, Indonesia  

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Browne, Kevin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Transcultural Psychiatry vol. 38 no. 2 (Jun. 2001), page 147–165.
Topik: (ng)amuk; culture-bound syndromes; emotion; idiom of distress; mental illness; self
Fulltext: 147TP382.pdf (107.26KB)

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Researchers of 'amuk' behavior in Southeast Asia have normally adopted either a psychiatric or ethno-behavioral position, both of which impose an outside theoretical model. An ethnopsychological view of (ng)amuk in Java reveals it to be a poetic idiom of distress, reflecting cultural anxieties about mental illness, aggression, loss of control and vulnerability of the self. Ngamuk as mental/social suffering in Java occurs in a political context that promotes strong repression of emotion and dissent. A model of ngamuk as an exegesis of mental/social distress, reflecting everyday experiences of anxiety, vulnerability, danger and transgression, is proposed.

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