Shared Ethnic Scotoma

EDITH T. SHAPIRO and HENRY PINSKERAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 130, Number 12

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.130.12.1338

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A number of writers have advanced the opinion that it is beneficial to a patient to have a therapist of the same ethnic background. The authors point out that this may lead to "blind spots" that prevent the therapist from seeing the irrationality of certain of the patient's attitudes. They give three case examples that illustrate this point.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 130 • Number 12 • December 1973

Pages: 1338 - 1341

PubMed: 4754678

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Published in print: December 1973

Published online: 1 April 2006

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EDITH T. SHAPIRO

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HENRY PINSKER

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Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry. College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at Newark, N.J.

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York, and Chief, Inpatient Service, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, N.Y.

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