Shakatani

Historiographic Analysis of the Jamaican ‘Shakatani’ Scotoma from the Short Stories of Erna Brodber

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.019

Pages:

475–80

Synopsis:

The study uses historiography in the analysis of the contemporary fictional writings of a Jamaican novelist to identify aspects of psychopathology of Jamaican people. The analysis reveals profound personality disorder scotoma that currently paralyses many Jamaicans as a product of the enslavement of Africans in the New World, which has been labelled ‘Shakatani’ by current Caribbean medical scholarship.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To use historiography in the analysis of the fictional writings of a Jamaican novelist to identify aspects of psychopathology of Jamaican people.

Received:

18 Jan, 2013

Accepted:

25 Mar, 2013

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Journal Sections:

Original Articles

Keywords:

personality disorder

Shakatani

Caribbean short stories

historiography

psychological blind spots

psychological scotoma

Journal Authors:

FW Hickling

e-Published: 26 Aug, 2013

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Shakatani: The Phenomenology of Personality Disorder in Jamaican Patients

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2012.333

Pages:

397–404

Synopsis:

The distribution and clinically significant patterns of the phenomenology of a naturalistic case-controlled private practice displayed symptoms of a ‘clinical triad’ of power management, dependency and psychosexual issues. This phenomenological approach has been called Shakatani - from the Swahili words shaka (problem) and tani (power), and is suggested to be an Axis I replacement for the four-cluster Axis II classification of the DSM-IV personality disorder.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To examine the distribution and clinically significant patterns of the phenomenology of a cohort of Jamaican patients with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) Axis II diagnosis of personality disorder and to clarify the conventional diagnostic deficiencies of DSMbased personality disorder categories.

Received:

19 Dec, 2012

Accepted:

22 Apr, 2013

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4-shakatani-3_personality_disorder.pdf

Journal Sections:

Original Articles

Keywords:

Shakatani

phenomenology

DSM-IV Axis I and II personality disorder

Journal Authors:

e-Published: 26 Aug, 2013

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A View of Personality Disorder from the Colonial Periphery

Issue:

Vol 62, Issue 5: Personality Disorders - June (2013)

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2013.122

Pages:

383–8

Synopsis:

The literature outlining the development and classification of personality disorder is reviewed in order to examine the history of this condition in the context of contemporary post-colonial Jamaican society.

ABSTRACT

Objective: To examine the history of personality disorder in the context of contemporary post-colonial Jamaican society.

Received:

16 Apr, 2013

Accepted:

22 Dec, 2013

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2-a_view_of_personality_personality_disorder.pdf

Journal Sections:

Original Articles

Keywords:

personality disorder