Self Systems, Cultural Idioms of Distress, and the Psycho-Bodily Consequences of Childhood Suffering  

Oleh:

Hollan, Douglas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Transcultural Psychiatry vol. 41 no. 1 (Mar. 2004), page 62–79.
Topik: childhood suffering; cultural idioms of distress; sadomasochism; self-systems; Toraja
Fulltext: 62TP411.pdf (155.8KB)

Isi artikel

In this article, I examine the effects of childhood suffering in two cases – one from my anthropological fieldwork in the central highlands of Sulawesi in Indonesia and one from my psychotherapeutic practice in Los Angeles. I argue that although people will always carry with them the psycho-bodily signature of their past social experience, these signatures are affected by the cultural idioms of distress into which they are woven and from which psycho-bodily attention is channeled and given meaning (or not). However, I also suggest that past social experiences are related to life trajectories in very complicated ways. For example, while the enactment of a cultural idiom of distress may help to resolve or give meaning to a form of illness or distress, it also may cause or exacerbate other forms of suffering –depending on how it is used and articulated by any given individual.

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