Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword
(Professor Gerard Hutchinson)

Section One: Introduction

The Caribbean region;pp. 1-4
(Hari D Maharajh and Joav Merrick)

Section Two: Medicine and the Caribbean Region

Chapter 1. History of Medicine in the Caribbean Region:
A Medical Association Perspective (1938-2008);pp. 7-16
(Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 2. Defining “Caribbeing Psychiatry”;pp. 17-28
(Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 3. Forging a New Dimension of Black Psychiatry in the Caribbean;pp. 29-6
(Katija Khan and Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 4. Indenture-Ship as a Contributory Factor to Mental and Physical illnesses in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora;pp. 37-48
(Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 5. Dopamine, Demons or Divination? The Dichotomy of
Science and Religion in Traditional Societies;pp. 49-58
(Hari D Maharajh)

Section Three: Culture, Behavior and Mental Illness

Chapter 6. Recognizing Social and Cultural Behaviors in Trinidad and Tobago;pp. 61-82
(Hari D Maharajh and Akleema Ali)

Chapter 7. Race, Politics and Behavior in Trinidad and Tobago;pp. 83-96
(Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 8. The Effects of Multiculturalism and Multi-Ethnicity in Group Dynamics in a Caribbean Setting;pp. 97-104
(Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 9. Do Trinidadians have a Carnival Mentality?;pp. 105-112
(Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 10. Dancing Frotteurism or Rubbing at The Carnival
Celebrations in Trinidad;pp. 113-118
(Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 11. Anorexia Nervosa and Religious Ambivalence in a
Developing Country;pp. 119-124
(Hari D Maharajh)

Section Four: Suicidal Behavior and Suicide

Chapter 12. Culture and Suicide;pp. 127-140
(Hari D Maharajh and Petal S Abdool)

Chapter 13. Adolescent Suicide in Trinidad and Tobago;pp. 141-150
(Hari D Maharajh and Akleema Ali)

Chapter 14. Patterns of Suicide and Suicidal Behaviors: Context and Causation;pp. 151-160
(Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 15. Derma-Abuse with Cutting in Young Adolescents;pp. 161-178
(Hari D Maharajh and Rainah Seepersad)

Chapter 16. Cybersuicide and the Adolescent Population: Challenges of the Future;pp. 179-188
(Ria Birbal, Hari Maharajh, Risa Birbal, Maria Clapperton, et al.)

Chapter 17. Self-Poisoning by Pesticide and Other Substances in a General Hospital;pp. 189-196
(Hari D Maharajh and Monique Konings)

Chapter 18. Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry in Trinidad and Tobago with Reference to Suicidal Behavior;pp. 197-206
(Hari D Maharajh, Petal Abdool and Rehannah Mohammed)

Section Five: Alcohol and Substance Abuse

Chapter 19. Crime, Alcohol Use and Unemployment;pp. 209-218
(Hari D Maharajh and Akleema Ali)

Chapter 20. Aggressive Sexual Behavior of Alcohol-Dependent Men in Trinidad;pp. 219-224
(Hari D Maharajh and Akleema Ali)

Chapter 21. Alcohiolics Anonymous in Trinidad;pp. 225-240
(Rainah Seepersad and Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 22. Cannabis Use: Context and Controversy;pp. 241-252
(Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 23. Depression and Psychosis Associated with Cannabis Abuse
in a Developing Country;pp. 253-264
(Hari D Maharajh and Monique Konings)

Chapter 24. Cocaine Use and Social Transformation;pp. 265-272
(Hari D Maharajh)

Section Six: General and Specialty Psychiatry

Chapter 25. Deinstitutionalization in the Caribbean;pp. 273-282
(Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 26. Depression in Trinidad and Tobago: Incidence and Social Trends;pp. 283-292
(Hari D Maharajh and Akleema Ali)

Chapter 27. Schizophrenia Revisited: Consensus and Confusion;pp. 293-304
(Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 28. Somatization Disorders among Indians in Jamaica and Trinidad and its Association with Social and Psychological Factors;pp. 305-3274
Astra Kassiram and Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 29. Forensic Psychiatry in the Colonial and Post Colonial Eras;pp. 325-350
(Hari D Maharajh)

Chapter 30. Lunacy, Time of the Year and Abscounding from a Psychiatric Hospital;pp. 350-358
(Hari D Maharajh and Akleema Ali)

Section Seven: Reflections

Chapter 31. The Way Forward;pp. 361-362
(Hari D Maharajh and Joav Merrick)

Section Eight: Acknowledgments

Chapter 32. About the authors;pp. 365-368

Chapter 33. About the Department of Clinical Medicin;pp. 369-370

Chapter 34. About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel;pp. 371-374

Chapter 35. About the Health and Human Development Book Series3;pp. 375-376

Index