Clark M H
Health Care Women Int. 1989;10(2-3):195-218. doi: 10.1080/07399338909515850.
The folk model for nevra (nerves) in Methana, Greece, is discussed in terms of the contradiction between the ideal of solidarity, central to the local family ideology, and the reality of interpersonal conflict in daily life. Contradictions in values resulting from rapid socioeconomic change are also considered. Nevra, a broad, ambiguous, negotiated concept, expresses a wide range of symptoms and serves as a culturally condoned medium for expression of otherwise unacceptable emotions. The notion of nevra provides a metaphor for social disorder such as interpersonal conflict between close kinfolk and value conflicts between generations. Case studies of social interaction demonstrate the relationship of nevra to various kinds of social disorder as well as to what Western psychiatry labels emotional disorders. Nevra is also related to other idioms of distress: the evil eye, possession by the devil, excessive drinking, and pilgrimages to religious shrines.
本文从团结理想（当地家庭观念的核心）与日常生活中人际冲突现实之间的矛盾出发，探讨了希腊迈萨纳关于神经（nevra）的民间模型。同时也考虑了快速社会经济变革导致的价值观矛盾。神经（nevra）是一个宽泛、模糊且经过协商的概念，它表达了广泛的症状，并成为一种文化上认可的媒介，用于表达其他情况下不可接受的情感。神经（nevra）的概念为社会混乱提供了一个隐喻，比如近亲之间的人际冲突以及代际之间的价值冲突。社会互动的案例研究表明了神经（nevra）与各种社会混乱以及西方精神病学所定义的情绪障碍之间的关系。神经（nevra）还与其他痛苦表达方式相关：邪眼、被恶魔附身、酗酒以及前往宗教圣地朝圣。
