Cultural Cognition and Psychopathology
Contributors: John F. Schumaker (Editor); Tony Ward (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: October 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780275966041
Subjects: Abnormal psychology; Clinical Psychology; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Cultural studies; Psychiatry; Cross-Cultural Psychology; Social Psychiatry; Medical; Psychology; Mental Illness; Public Health; Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology; Psychiatry - General; Social Psychology; Cognition and culture; Cultural psychiatry
First sentence: Psychologist have struggled obsessively to present their discipline as a scientific, value-free enterprise unaffected by biases stemming from its embeddedness in social and historical contexts.