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Rethinking Psychiatry

Rethinking Psychiatry

From Cultural Category to Personal Experience

by Arthur Kleinman
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/03/1991

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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.
ISBN:
9780029174425
9780029174425
Category:
Psychiatry
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-03-1991
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
237
Dimensions (mm):
234x156x18mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Arthur Kleinman

Arthur Kleinman is one of the most renowned and influential experts on psychiatry, global health and cultural issues in medicine. He is currently a professor of psychiatry and of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology. Having spent decades doing field research in China and Taiwan, he is also a leading expert on East Asia. He is the author of The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition, now widely used in medical schools.

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