Cultural Conceptions and the Role of the Psychiatrist in Germany and America

J. Marshall Townsend
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J. Marshall Townsend: Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, Health Studies Programme Maxwell School, Syracuse University

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1978, vol. 24, issue 4, 250-258

Abstract: Matched samples of mental hospital staff and high school students completed mental health questionnaires in Germany and America. The results were factor analysed. One factor concerned the role of the psychiatrist. The role of the psychia trist in each culture seems to reflect basic cultural conceptions of mental disorders. Reference to two earlier papers indicates that patients, staff, and public share these basic conceptions and these conceptions affect patient-staff relationships.

Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1177/002076407802400404

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