Psychiatric Care in Cross-Cultural Perspective

For some years now, there has been a growing literature on the structure of psychiatric services, most particularly in Great Britain and the United States. Initially stressing the administrative or legal aspects of these services, more recently there has been an interest in considering the psychiatric service as a social system. However, the main emphasis has tended to be descriptive, reporting particular organizational approaches,1 or evaluative, in which a new type of unit has been assessed as for example, the Day Hospital.2 Studies of the social functioning of psychiatric services have tended to be chiefly concerned with the psychiatric hospital,3 and the wider relationship between the psychiatric social system and society has been but rarely touched upon.4

Cross-cultural · Perspective (graphical) · Psychiatry · Sociology · Anthropology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychiatric care and mental health services · Psychology