Story of Bali, Indonesia

With reference to personality characteristics, it is worthwhile noting vignettes of two persons well known to Mead and bateson who are stark contradictions 'to her presentations. One is Made Kaler, the incredible, energetic, attentive, skilled, secretary, who had command of five foreign languages and who, in Mead's words, was 'just about the nearest thing to perfection that God ever -made' . It is evident from; Mead's own descriptions and from the authors' interviews that he was in no way schizoid, maladjusted, unintelligent, withdrawn, or lacking in thoughtfulness. He is a native of Bali and as Balinese in character as any. 'Mother Person is Karba, Mead's favorite subject personally the subject of the film. Karba's First Years' and one of eight children. Bateson, Mead studied intensively. She described him as the gayest, liveliest, and most responsive of the children, she observed. His parents were not atypical for people of, Bayung Gede but she noted aunt Was a high-spirited person. Today, 50 years later, he lives with his fourth wife and one of his three grown sons in a, traditional household about 40 metres from the main road intersection. His first three wives did not bear children so they parted, as is customary, childlessness being a serious problem.

A mass trance disorder in Malaysia, similar to that of the Balinese schoolchildren, appeared to be a means for the children to express distressing feelings and erotic conflicts regarding the schoolmaster which they could not express directly (Teok and Tan, 1976).

Suryani surveyed symptoms, problems, and the relative prevalence 'bf various minor psychiatric disorders in 162 consecutive patients at the outpatient psychiatry clinic of Wangaya Hospital in Denpasar. Patients checked their perceived symptoms on a fist developed by collaborators in a multicultural study of minor psychiatric disorders in Asia. Diagnoses according to DSM-111-R (1987) were made on the basis of psychiatric interviews. Demographics were: males, 62 per cent; female, 38 per cent; ages between 15 and 40 years, 88 per cent; married, 51 per cent single, 45 per cent; education through secondary school or better, 74 per cent. Seventy-seven per cent had anxiety symptoms, and 62 per cent had symptoms of depressed mood or sadness. Symptoms such as sleep disturbance, difficulty concentrafing, decreased appetite, and physical complaints could have been secondary to depression. 'Me most common clinical diagnoses were generalized anxiety disorders (56 per cent), depressive disorders (29 per cent), and somatization disorders or multiple physical symptoms of various types with no identifiable organic cause (12 per cent).

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