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Culture and Common Mental Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa by Patel, Vickram is a psychology available to read on EtoBox.

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The influence of culture on mental illness has been the subject of considerable academic investigation and debate in recent years. This debate has provoked concerns about the validity and reliability of older methodologies which emphasised either universal characteristics of disorders which were heavily biased towards Euro-American systems, or the culturally relativist approach which saw psychological disorders as products largely of their own culture. The "new" cross-cultural psychiatry propose

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Patel, Vickram
Publisher
Psychology Press Ltd
Published
1998
Language
EN
ISBN
9780863775161
Category
psychology
Subjects
Psychology, Medical, Social Science
Updated
2026-03-25

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