Cultural Factors Complicating Diagnosis and Treatment of an African College Student

Jeffrey GlassAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: Psychiatric Services

Volume 34, Number 6

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.6.550

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In conclusion, it should be emphasized that this man probably would have been considered more mentally ill than someone suffering solely from the effects of being accursed and that he would have been a psychiatric casualty even in familiar surroundings.

This case serves to emphasize that not all psychoses that are cultunally determined are of a hystenical nature. It also indicates that our Western diagnostic scheme is not inappropriately applied to tnanscultural psychiatric illnesses, and reminds us that cultural insights may enhance, rather than predude, the practice of a scientific psychiatry.

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Psychiatric Services

Volume 34 • Number 6 • June 1983

Pages: 550 - 552

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Published in print: June 1983

Published online: 1 April 2006

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Jeffrey Glass

Timberlawn Psychiatric Hospital, 4645 Samuell Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75228

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Cultural Factors Complicating Diagnosis and Treatment of an African College Student

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