Hi-wa itck

Hi-wa itck is a tradition concerning lovesickness mostly associated with the Mohave American Indians. This syndrome is associated with the separation of a loved one and the symptoms include insomnia, depression and loss of appetite and possibly suicide.^[1] Hi-wa itck was typically experienced by men, especially older men abandoned by their younger wives.^[2]

Notes

1. "Glossary of culture bound syndromes".
2. Devereux 95, 103

References

• Devereux, George. "Mohave Ethnopsychiatry and Suicide: The Psychiatric Knowledge and the Psychic Disturbances of an Indian Tribe, Issue 175." US Government Printing Office, 1961.