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H F Stein

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PubMed1978

The Slovak-American "swaddling ethos": homeostat for family dynamics and cultural continuity.

This paper explores the systemic relationships among cultural ethos, family dynamics, personality configuration, and child-rearing patterns among multigeneration Slovak-Americans. The "swaddling ethos" is posited to serve as a homeostat whose regulatory function can be discerned through the analysis of family structure and process, in particular through the explication of values, affective patterns, roles, boundaries, and structural units within the family. The core of the ethos is a dependency-security complex that attaches the individual to an extended family network of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity (ethnic, Slovak); induces rebellion against such attachment (mainstream American); and undermines efforts toward separation-individuation, resulting in the perpetuation of an ethnic tradition.

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PubMed1977

The binding of the son: psychoanalytic reflections on the symbiosis of anti-semitism and anti-gentilism.

Jewish ethno-reliqious history is analyzed as one pole of an interdependent Judeo-Christian system of opposition and symbiosis, in which reciprocal dissociation and projective identification function homeostatically to make history recur and to perpetuate what are ostensibly separate traditions. The nature of identification with the Father and with the Son is explored in the two traditions. Anti-Semitism and anti-Gentilism are seen as mirror images, reflecting what is ego-dystonic and ethosdystonic in Christianity and Judaism. It is argued that the Abraham-Isaac relationship is paradigmatic in Judaism and that throughout Jewish history, the Jewish people have accepted both the sacrificial role of Isaac and the punitive role of Abraham, with the paradoxical consequence that martyrdom is the unconscious symbol of survival.

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An approach to community assessment in medical practice.

An ethnographic model for community based medical practice is proposed. Its goal is to anticipate areas of value and expectation conflict between the physician and his or her practice community setting. Three types of ethnographic information gathering are outlined: (1) desk assessment, based on the ethnographic use of newspapers, maps, census records, (2) informant methods, and (3) participant observation. It is argued that these lead to an understanding of the community's health-related beliefs and practices and to the ability to deliver community oriented health care. Examples of this ethnographic approach are given from the authors' experiences. A method to represent graphically the process of community analysis is provided.

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