Cross-cultural psychiatry is a branch of
psychiatry concerned with the
cultural and
ethnic context of
mental disorder and psychiatric services. It emerged as a coherent field from several strands of work, including surveys of the
prevalence and form of disorders in different cultures or countries; the study of
migrant populations and ethnic diversity within countries; and analysis of psychiatry itself as a cultural product. The early literature was associated with
colonialism and with either sidelining or denigrating different cultures or ethnic groups. A seminal paper by
Arthur Kleinman in 1977 followed by a renewed dialogue between
anthropology and psychiatry, is seen as having heralded a 'new cross-cultural psychiatry'.
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