Transcultural Psychiatry in the Caribbean: Past, Present, and Future

ERIC D. WITTKOWERAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 127, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.2.162

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The author surveys cultural psychiatric research in the Caribbean Islands. After an ethnographic introduction to the area, he deals with observations concerning the frequency, distribution, and symptomatology of mental disorders, reasons for differences in disorders between the Caribbean and other cultural areas and among Caribbean subcultures, and special problems encountered by psychiatrists practicing or doing research in this area. Disorders of special interest are alcoholism and possession states. The author outlines problems that offer themselves for future research.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 127 • Number 2 • August 1970

Pages: 162 - 166

PubMed: 4319648

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Published in print: August 1970

Published online: 1 April 2006

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ERIC D. WITTKOWER

Professor of psychiatry, McGill University, 1266 Pine Ave., West, Montreal 109, Quebec, Canada

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Transcultural Psychiatry in the Caribbean: Past, Present, and Future

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