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Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on December 3, 2007
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2008 34(2):249-250; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbm135
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Commentary on Alex Cohen et al: "Questioning an Axiom: Better Prognosis for Schizophrenia in the Developing World"

Arthur Kleinman1
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, William James Hall, Room 330, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

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In the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, the field of cross-cultural (or transcultural) psychiatry provided what was largely Euro American psychiatry with several useful alternatives. Based on limited research, it balanced the near hegemonic American and British research materials and conclusions with data from the non-Western world, and with new findings about established psychiatric disorders that challenged diagnoses, programs, and treatments. Cultural psychiatry still provides those contributions, but psychiatry itself has changed. We are now in an era of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

1 To whom correspondence should be addressed; tel: 617-495-3846, fax: 617-495-3557, e-mail: kleinman@wjh.harward.edu.


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