Anthropological Approaches to Psychological Medicine
Subtitle: Crossing Bridges
Contributors: Vieda Skultans (Editor); John Cox (Editor)
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781853027079
Subjects: Anthropology; Clinical psychology; Psychiatry; Psychiatry, Transcultural; Medical; Psychology; General; Psychiatry - General; Anthropology - General; Medical anthropology
First sentence: Over the past two decades, a significant body of research has outlined major problems that relate to the development of psychiatric diagnostic classificatory systems and standardized research instruments in cross-cultural settings (Jadhav 1995, Kleinman 1987, Kleinman and Good 1985, Littlewood 1990, Murphy 1982).