Mental Health, Race and Culture by Suman Fernando
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Mental Health, Race and Culture
Mental Health, Race and Culture
Summary
Argues that current psychiatric thinking in the West is based on a notion of the psyche that is culturally exclusive and which on both the theoretical and individual level may be construed as racist. A study of mental disorders across the world leads to proposals for a more open approach.
Mental Health, Race and Culture Summary
Table of Contents
Part 1 Theory and tradition: Race, culture and ethnicity; racism; western psychiatry; mental health and mental disorder; Part 2 Practice and innovation: applied psychiatry; different forms of psychiatry; technologies for mental health; mental health for all.
Additional information
GOR003787941
9780333474761
0333474767
Mental Health, Race and Culture by Suman Fernando
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
1991-09-20
253
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