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The Role of Cultural Factors in Paranoid Psychosis Among the Yoruba Tribe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

T. Adeoye Lambo
T. Adeoye Lambo*
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Maudsley Hospital, London Nigerian Medical Service
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It is certainly noteworthy that, during the last few decades, whatever the contributory forces, more and more emphasis is being placed on the contention that man is a social being and that his individuality as a person is meaningful only in terms of his relations with others. Mead (1947) has shown that man as a social being is subjected “throughout his entire individual existence to systematic cultural pressures” which reinforce or intensify, elaborate or suppress his psycho-biological potentialities in a way which not only refutes the false belief in the uniformity of human behaviour but reveals also its most extreme types.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 101 , Issue 423 , April 1955 , pp. 239 - 266
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1955 

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