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Ethnic psychosis are mental disorders peculiar to particular ethnic groups. It is actually a form of paranoid schizophrenia that takes on a ethno-specific form. For example, the Windigo psychosis is peculiar to northern Algonkian peoples who fear they are becoming a Windigo. [A flesh-eating monster] They begin to see other people as edible animals. Ironically it's based in a deep rooted fear of cannibalism.

The conflicts that lead to these individualized neuroses and character disorders originate in the idiosyncratic rather than the ethnic portion of the unconscious, and the defenses used to deal with these conflicts may not have strong cultural stylization

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