Commentary on Alex Cohen et al: 'Questioning an axiom: better prognosis for schizophrenia in the developing world'.

摘要

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.