Symbolic interaction and an interpretive approach to cross cultural psychiatry

Author

Henry Dyson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Periodical Title

Modern Psychological Studies

Volume

4

Number

1

Page Numbers

pages 40-45

Department

Dept. of Psychology

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Date

1996

Abstract

Adoption of the medical model of psychopathology has de-emphasized the need for psychiatry to incorporate new developments from the other social sciences. The need for an interpretive (rather than merely biological) approach to psychopathology based upon theories of symbolic interaction is argued in the present article with respect to the emerging field of cross-cultural psychiatry. Groundwork for such an approach is sketched out by application of Obeyesekere's (1981) anthropological theory of personal symbols.

Subject

Psychology

Discipline

Psychology

Document Type

article

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

6 leaves

Language

English

Call Number

BF1 .M63 v. 4 no. 1 1996

Rights

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Recommended Citation

Dyson, Henry (1996) "Symbolic interaction and an interpretive approach to cross cultural psychiatry," Modern Psychological Studies: Vol. 4: No. 1, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholar.utc.edu/mps/vol4/iss1/5