Maurice Lipsedge

Roland Littlewood

Consultant and Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry Lewisham and Guy's Mental Health Trust and United Medical and Dental Schools Division of Psychiatry and Psychology Maurice Lipsedge

Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry Roland Littlewood

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: * the psychological legacy of colonialism and slavery * the racist bias in psychiatric and psychological theory * diagnostic bias * the role of religion in mental health or illness * the value of anthropological and pschoanalytic insights. The concluding chapter in this edition reviews the development of 'transcultural psychiatry' and summarises changes in administration of the Mental Health Act.

Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry Roland Littlewood

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