TY - JOUR
AU - Lin, Tsung-Yi
AB - Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (1982) 16: 235-245 The Squibb Academic Address* CULTURE AND PSYCHIATRY: A CHINESE PERSPECTIVE TSUNG-YI LIN Ethnocentrism typifies the subjectivity (often Although modern psychiatry has long recognised the role culture plays in the manifestation unconscious) of a psychiatrist who tends to judge of patients, or human beings in general, as normal, mental illness since the early years of Kraepelin abnormal or even pathological, based on the and Freud, active, systematic, scientific criteria of his own culture. Clinical universalism investigation into the complex relationship originates in the belief that all human beings between culture and normal and abnormal basically live, feel, think and behave alike, so that behaviour is of recent development. In the the symptomatology, course, and outcome of a meantime, such terms as comparative psychiatry, disease, as well as its methods of treatment or ethnopsychiatry, cross-cultural psychiatry and theories of its causation should apply in all cases transcultural psychiatry have been coined in spite of any individual, racial, ethnic or cultural emphasising certain specific objectives or aspects differences. Modern psychiatry was born in the of concern. It would not be an exaggeration to West, and as it grew it was moulded by 
TI - The Squibb Academic Address*: Culture and Psychiatry: A Chinese Perspective
JF - Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
DO - 10.3109/00048678209161263
DA - 2016-06-26
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/the-squibb-academic-address-culture-and-psychiatry-a-chinese-CH4fTygxnD
VL - 16
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