Disciplined Hearts

History, Identity, and Depression in an American Indian Community

by Theresa Deleane O'Nell

Drawing on recent anthropological theory as well as ethnographic and clinical work, Theresa O'Nell locates depression among the Flathead Indians in the culturally organized experiences of an oppressed people. Offering a rich account of family and community life, she describes the moral imagination with which Flathead Indian people weave together historical and personal loss, American Indian identity, and social responsibility.

265 pp ~ illustrated — ©1998