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Published on: February 16, 2011
Transcultural psychiatry, ethnic minorities and marginalization
Abstract:
Cultural and racial bias has been woven into the fabric of Western psychiatry in its historic development. Western psychiatry emphasizes the medical model as being fundamental to the discipline. Many communities in large cities and industrial areas have become multicultural and multiracial. Culture-bound syndromes are not specific to non-Western ethnic minorities. Black people are overrepresented among psychiatric patients in institutions. Mental health services for ethnic minorities have been haphazard and inconsistent. Cultural experiences and the practical realities of racism are overdue their recognition.
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