cross-cultural psychiatry


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cross-cul·tur·al psy·chi·a·try

a field of psychiatry with interest in the study of psychological and psychiatric phenomena as differentially expressed in the cultures of different countries.
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See, for example, Morton Beiser, "A Study of Depression among Traditional Africans, Urban North Americans and South East Asian Refugees," Culture and Depression: Studies in the Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry of Affect and Disorder, eds.
From good cheer to "Drive-By Smiling": a social history of cheerfulness
Depression, somatization and the new cross-cultural psychiatry.
A cross-cultural measure of depressive symptoms among Vietnamese Americans. (Instrument Development)
In the end, the central importance of this book to medical anthropology is O'Neil's discussion of the relationship between social anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry.
Disciplined Hearts: History, Identity, and Depression in an American Indian Community
Perhaps stretching my expertise in cross-cultural psychiatry to this point would help make me effective in a prison setting.
Is prison in my future? Part I
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