Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience
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Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience
In this book, Leinman proposes an international view of mental illness and mental care. He examines how the prevalence and nature of disorders vary in different cultures, how clinicians make their diagnoses, and how they heal, and the educational and practical implications of a true understanding of the interplay between biology and culture.
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