Transcultural psychiatry, ethnic minorities and marginalization
- 9 September 1993
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Mark Allen Group in British Journal of Nursing
- Vol. 2 (16) , 805-809
- https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.1993.2.16.805
Abstract
Psychiatry in the West has developed as a highly ethnocentric discipline, which has successfully marginalized some cultural and racial groups. This article examines the problems facing ethnic minorities within a Western mental health care system.Keywords
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