Race, culture and psychiatry: A history of transcultural psychiatry

History of Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-154

  Bains, Jatinder ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MANLY HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; History; Psychiatry; Race; Transcultural

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATHOLOGY; POLITICS; POPULATION; PRECIPITATION; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIABILITY; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOCIOLOGY; SOMATIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; WAR;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRY; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 20644434142     PISSN: 0957154X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X05046167     Document Type: Article

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