Beyond the 'new cross-cultural psychiatry': cultural biology, discursive psychology and the ironies of globalization.

摘要: The ‘new cross-cultural psychiatry’ heralded by Kleinman in 1977 promised a revitalized tradition that gave due respect to cultural difference and did not export psychiatric theories were themselves culture bound. In the ensuing years, view of within anthropology has continued change, along with our understanding relationship biological processes diversity, global political economic contexts which mental health care is delivered. This article considers implications these new notions culture, biology context practice for theory psychiatry. future psychiatry lies advancing broad perspective that: (a) inherently multidisciplinary (involving epidemiology, medical sociology, cognitive science social psychology), breaking down nature/culture dichotomy an integrative as core feature human biology, while remaining alert constructio...