Guarnaccia P J, Rivera M, Franco F, Neighbors C
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1996 Sep;20(3):343-67. doi: 10.1007/BF00113824.
Ataques de nervios are an idiom of distress used by Puerto Ricans and other Latinos to express dislocations in the social world of the family. This paper contributes to the growing study of the "anthropology of the emotions". Through detailed interviews with 121 people in Puerto Rico, 78 of whom had had an ataque de nervios, we are developing a thick description of both the prototypical models for ataques de nervios and the varied individual experiences of ataques. The interview used in this study is a version of the Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue specifically adapted for use in a community study of ataques de nervios in Puerto Rico. Responses to questions on the experience of ataque de nervios were analyzed using a team of reviewers who represented differing knowledge and experience with Puerto Rican culture and mental health practice. The experience of ataques de nervios involves a loss of control in several important domains of experience: emotional expressions, bodily sensations, action dimensions and alterations in consciousness. That loss of control is closely linked to important social contexts relating to major life problems and the experience of suffering.
“神经发作”是波多黎各人和其他拉丁裔用来表达家庭社会世界混乱的一种痛苦表述。本文为日益增长的“情感人类学”研究做出了贡献。通过对波多黎各121人的详细访谈，其中78人曾有过“神经发作”经历，我们正在对“神经发作”的原型模式以及“神经发作”的各种个体经历进行深入描述。本研究中使用的访谈是专门为波多黎各“神经发作”社区研究改编的“解释性模型访谈目录”版本。一组代表不同波多黎各文化和心理健康实践知识与经验的评审员对关于“神经发作”经历的问题回答进行了分析。“神经发作”的经历涉及在几个重要体验领域失去控制：情感表达、身体感觉、行动维度和意识改变。这种控制的丧失与与重大生活问题和痛苦经历相关的重要社会背景密切相关。
