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Coyote's swing : a memoir and critique of mental hygiene in native America  Cover Image Book Book

Coyote's swing : a memoir and critique of mental hygiene in native America

Summary: "Using a traditional Yakama tale as a motif, the author combines firsthand experiences as a consulting psychologist with rare history and sociocultural critique, revealing how the U.S. mental health system reframes Native American reactions to oppression and marginalization into "mental disorders" and "mental illness.""--

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  • ISBN: 0874224209
  • ISBN: 9780874224207
  • Physical Description: xxvii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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  • Publisher: Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2022]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Machine generated contents note: pt. I Cat Brings Coyote's Swing -- One. Coyote Swings -- Two. "Who Are You, and Why Are You Here?" -- Three. A Brief Swing Backwards -- pt. II Coyote Swings Back and Forth -- Four. The Disordered Native -- Five. Oppressive and Genocidal Realities -- Six. IHS Attempts to Prevent Native Suicide -- Seven. Border Skirmish -- Eight. "Being PTSD" -- pt. III Building Coyote's Swing -- Nine. Collective Suffering -- Ten. Exploring the Soul Wound -- Eleven. "The Continuance of Their Race" -- Twelve. Generational Carry: Boxing to Boarding School -- Thirteen. My Generational Carry -- Fourteen. Entering the Asylum -- Fifteen. Locked Inside Hiawatha: Josephine's "Delusions" -- Sixteen. Locked in Hiawatha: Emily's Demise -- Seventeen. Locked Inside Hiawatha: Two Eyewitnesses..." -- Eighteen. Locked in Hiawatha: The Soldier -- Nineteen. Todays Indian Asylums -- pt. IV Dismantling Coyote's Swing -- Twenty. Hope and Reason.
Subject: Walker, David Edward 1956-
Yakama Indians Mental health services
Indians of North America Mental health services Washington (State)
Psychologists Washington (State) Biography
Indians of North America Mental health services
Psychologists
Washington (State)
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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