Culture permeates human activity the world over. In today's technological" global village,"
people from very different cultures are interacting more closely and more often than ever …

The United States will no longer have a Caucasian majority in the second half of the 21st
century. Evidence shows that misdiagnosis of mental disorders occurs more frequently in …

A mail survey was conducted to explore how mental health professionals take culture into
account in their evaluations of psychopathology and to assess their reported attitudes …

A troublesome imbalance has persisted for many years: the neglect of the fundamental
relevance of culture in successive editions of the American Psychiatric Association's …

Objectives The authors aim to summarize the pedagogical approaches and curriculum used
in the training of researchers in cultural psychiatry at the Division of Social and Transcultural …

Psychiatry defines human behavior through a classificatory grid of typified mental conditions
and illnesses that renders conduct deviant and" medicalizes" it when it fails to meet culturally …

This article reviews the historical evolution and progress of nosological concepts from exotic
psychiatric disorders and culture-bound syndromes to culture-related specific syndromes …

Western psychological theories of mental health create an illusion that the tenets
(development, personality, psychopathology, psycho-evaluation, and therapy) they …

Like the poor, psychopaths have always been with us (Cleckley, 1976; Rotenberg &
Diamond, 1971); while they appear in all societies-no matter what the level of economic …

Twenty years ago, Devereux identified distinguishing between normal and abnormal
behavior as the key problem in the application of psychiatric knowledge beyond our own …