Aliens and Alienists

<p>In this classic text the authors examine the links between racism, psychological ill health and inadequate treatment of ethnic minorities. Through a series of case studies they discuss:<br> * the psychological legacy of colonialism and slavery<br> * the racist bias in psychiatric and psychological theory<br> * diagnostic bias<br> * the role of religion in mental health or illness<br> * the value of anthropological and pschoanalytic insights.<br> The concluding chapter in this edition reviews the development of 'transcultural psychiatry' and summarises changes in administration of the Mental Health Act.</p> <p>1 Ethnic minorities and the psychiatrist 2 Medicine and racism 3 The question of black depression 4 Mental illness among immigrants to Britain 5 A digression on diagnosis 6 The price of adaptation 7 Sick societies 8 A prelude to insanity? 9 Normal and abnormal 10 The illness as a communication 11 Some conclusions 12 The development of ‘transcultural psychiatry’ in Britain 1982–96</p>