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Psychiatry's culture

R Littlewood1

  • 1University College London, UK.

The International Journal of Social Psychiatry
|January 1, 1996
PubMed
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Area of Science:

  • Medical Anthropology
  • History of Psychiatry
  • Cultural Psychiatry

Background:

  • Culture is an ambiguous concept in psychiatry, often viewed as secondary to biomedical factors.
  • Historical psychiatric understandings of culture originated in imperial medicine, attempting to categorize non-European illnesses.
  • Concepts like 'culture-bound pathology' and 'modal personality' were influenced by developmental and evaluative assumptions.

Observation:

  • Contemporary clinical psychiatry's view of culture stems from historical imperial medical practices.
  • Psychiatry historically distinguished between biological and cultural aspects of psychopathology.
  • Non-European illnesses posed challenges to established European nosology, prompting the development of culture-related concepts.

Findings:

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  • The concept of 'culture-bound pathology' and related ideas like 'modal personality' did not fully overcome inherent biases of 'developmental' assumptions.
  • Psychiatry's engagement with cultural concepts was often rooted in colonial contexts and hierarchical views of societies.
  • Evidence suggests psychiatry offered limited ideological support to British colonial administrations through its cultural frameworks.

    • Implications:

    • Re-evaluating the historical relationship between psychiatry and cultural concepts is crucial for contemporary practice.
    • Understanding the imperial origins of psychiatric cultural concepts can inform more equitable and less biased approaches.
    • Further research is needed to decolonize psychiatric nosology and diagnostic practices.