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About Mental Illness: Biological Process in Sociocultural Context

January 12, 2010 by Susan Bodnar

Ethan Watters wrote in the NY Times that the importation to other cultures of American models of mental illness actually creates new symptom patterns as people replicate what they are taught about themselves.  This intervention of American mental health models sometimes obliterates local forms of understanding and healing.  He writes, “When we undermine local conceptions […]

Filed Under: human interaction, mental illness, relationships Tagged With: americanization of mental illness, diagnostic categories, ethan watters, multicultural mental health

Susan Bodnar, Ph.D

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