ethnopsychiatry

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In cultural anthropology: Distinction between physical anthropology and cultural anthropology
…of cross-cultural psychiatry, or so-called ethnopsychiatry. Conversely, the psychological sciences, particularly psychoanalysis, have offered cultural anthropology new hypotheses for an interpretation of the concept of culture.
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In anthropology: Psychological anthropology
Ethnopsychiatry examines not only other cultures’ understandings of mental illness but also methods of treatment other than standard Western procedures. Such systems as shamanism or spirit possession and the altered states of consciousness that accompany them are understood by some in terms of dissociation or…
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