1st Edition

Transcultural Psychiatry

Edited By John L. Cox Copyright 1986
352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

352 Pages
by Routledge

In the 1980s, transcultural psychiatry was a developing field which was commanding increasing attention for three major reasons. First, many societies were becoming more and more multicultural, and therefore professional health workers needed to be aware of the needs and background of ethnic groups, as well as to be familiar with their own cultural assumptions. Secondly, the study of psychiatric... Read more

List of Contributors.  Acknowledgements.  1. Introduction John L. Cox  2. The Historical Development of Transcultural Psychiatry H.B.M. Murphy  3. The Epidemiology of Mental Illness Across Cultures Julian Leff  4. Russian Dolls and Chinese Boxes: An Anthropological Approach to the Implicit Models of Comparative Psychiatry Roland Littlewood  5. Migration and Mental Illness Philip H. Rack  6. Overseas Students and Expatriates: Sojourners or Settlers? John L. Cox  7. Psychiatric Services for Ethnic Minority Groups John Bavington and Abdul Majid  8. Depression in Ethnic Minorites Suman Fernando  9. Racism, Prejudice and Mental Illness Aggrey W. Burke  10. Ideology and Politics in Transcultural Psychiatry S.P. Sashidharan  11. The Mental Health Impact of British Cultural Traditions H.B.M. Murphy  12. Transcultural Social Work John Triseliotis  13. Culture and Psychiatric Nursing: Implications for Training Bryn D. Davis  14. Family Therapy Across Cultures Annie Lau  15. The ‘Culture-bound Syndromes’ of the Dominant Culture: Culture, Psychopathology and Biomedicine Roland Littlewood and Maurice Lipsedge  16. Chinese Psychiatry: Development and Characteristics Wen-Shing Tseng  17. Indian and Western Psychiatry: A Comparison A. Venkoba Rao  18. African and Western Psychiatry: A Comparison T. Asuni.  Index.

Biography

John L. Cox