Race and Culture in Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals)

ISBN-13: 9781138839625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 216 str.

Suman Fernando;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

With its origins in nineteenth-century Europe, psychiatry evolved as an ethnocentric body of knowledge, the vehicle of implicit and overt racism. Originally published in 1988 this author, however, saw no reason why the contemporary psychiatrist should not challenge this ethnocentrism. He provides a critical account of the development of psychiatry in relation to its cultural context and then examined contemporary practice of the time in the light of this development. What emerges is not just a plea for an anti-racist, culture sensitive psychiatry, but a blueprint for how this can be brought about.

Spis treści

Introduction.  1. The Culture of Psychiatry  2. Current Psychiatry  3. Cross-cultural Research  4. Socio-cultural Psychiatry  5. Racist Psychiatry  6. The Race–Culture Argument  7. A Blue-print for Change.  References.  Index.

O autorze

Suman Fernando