ETHNOGRAPHY OF THERAPEUTIC PROCESS IN RELIGIOUS HEALING

宗教治疗治疗过程的民族志

• 批准号: 2392935
• 负责人: Thomas Csordas
• 金额: $ 9.98万
• 依托单位: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-04-01 至 1999-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2392935
• 关键词: Native Americans; alternative medicine; behavioral /social science research tag; community mental health services; culture; folk medicine; human subject; human therapy evaluation; interview; mental disorder diagnosis; psychological stressor; psychotherapy; religion; semantics; social psychology; stress; vocabulary

The proposed project is a cross-cultural extension of a research program on therapeutic process in religious healing, grounded in the anthropological analogy between religious healing and psychotherapy. The aim of the proposed project is to examine the experiential specificity of therapeutic change processes in religious healing among Navajo Indians. The methodological perspective is that of cultural anthropology, and is based on a qualitative, ethnographic, interpretive research paradigm. The project will have two phases, an ethnography of therapeutic practice, and an ethnography of therapeutic process. The first phase will be to construct a systematic description of the contemporary Navajo religious healing system, which includes three principal categories: traditional Navajo healing, Native American Church healing, and Christian healing. Data from forty healers in each of these three categories (N= 120) will be collected by means of ethnographic interviews and observation of religious healing events. The specific aims are description of the repertoire of therapeutic procedures and events within each form of healing, their underlying ethnopsychology of self and transformation, the rhetorical resources available to healers, and healers' perceptions of the compatibility of theirs with other forms of healing. The second phase will examine experiential process in subsets of eight healers working with four patients each, for a total of thirty-two patients in each category of healing (N= 96). Methods include ethnographic interviews, clinical diagnostic interviews, and elicitation of experiential commentaries (using the Interpersonal Process Recall method of psychotherapy process research) from participants in healing events. Specific aims are to determine how each form of Navajo healing calls into play the elements specified in a previously elaborated model of therapeutic process, to construct prototypic accounts of patients engaged in each form of religious healing, and to determine the role of religious healing in addressing psychosocial problems frequently associated with the disorders of depression and alcohol/substance abuse, problems which conventional mental health resources have proven inadequate to resolve.

拟议的项目是研究计划的跨文化扩展 关于宗教康复的治疗过程，扎根于 宗教康复与心理治疗之间的人类学类比。 这 拟议项目的目的是检查的经验特异性 纳瓦霍印第安人宗教康复的治疗变化过程。 方法论的观点是文化人类学的观点，是 基于定性的人种学，解释性研究范式。 该项目将有两个阶段，一个人种志，治疗实践的民族志， 以及治疗过程的民族志。 第一阶段是构造对 当代纳瓦霍宗教康复系统，其中包括三个 主要类别：传统纳瓦霍治疗，美国原住民教会 康复和基督徒康复。 来自每一个的40位治疗师的数据 将通过民族志收集三类（n = 120） 访谈和观察宗教康复事件。 具体 目的是描述治疗程序的曲目 在每种康复形式的事件中，它们的基本民族心理学 自我和转变，可用于治疗者的修辞资源， 以及治疗师对他们与其他形式的兼容性的看法 治愈。 第二阶段将检查八个子集中的经验过程 治疗师与四名患者一起工作，总共32例 每类愈合的患者（n = 96）。 方法包括 民族志访谈，临床诊断访谈和启发 体验式评论（使用人际交往召回 心理治疗过程研究方法）来自参与者的康复 事件。 具体目的是确定每种形式的纳瓦霍治疗方式 打电话播放先前详细模型中指定的元素 治疗过程，构建患者的原型账户 从事每种形式的宗教康复，并确定 宗教治疗经常解决社会心理问题 与抑郁症，酒精/药物滥用的疾病有关， 传统心理健康资源已证明的问题 无法解决。