Race and Culture in Psychiatry Young Women • 24 field-tested exercises to

• 24 field-tested exercises to fit your audience and schedule

Jean Renvoize uses interviews with victims and with experienced professionals

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an approach he calls ‘Flexibility-Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy’

Race and Culture in Psychiatry Young Women • 24 field-tested exercises toWith its origins in nineteenth century Europe, psychiatry evolved as an ethnocentric body of knowledge, the vehicle of implicit and overt racism. Originally published in 1988 this author, however, saw no reason why the contemporary psychiatrist should not challenge this ethnocentrism. He provides a critical account of the development of psychiatry in relation to its cultural context and then examined contemporary practice of the time in the light of