Abstract
This chapter analyzes certain key beliefs, assumptions, conceptions, and clinical practices based upon them, of American psychiatrists. It focuses on two categories of American professional ethnopsychiatrists. The members of the first category are generally referred to as “Christian psychiatrists” by these practitioners themselves and by others; the second category of professionals is commonly labeled simply “psychiatrists” by self and others but often “secular psychiatrists” by some members of the first category.
A version of the present paper was read at the University of Amsterdam Sociology and Anthropology Centrum, May 1983, and that version was published (1983) as ‘Person and Practice…’ Working Paper No. 1, University of Amsterdam Sociology and Anthropology Centrum, Amsterdam, Holland.
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Gaines, A.D. (1985). The Once- and the Twice-Born: Self and Practice among Psychiatrists and Christian Psychiatrists. In: Hann, R.A., Gaines, A.D. (eds) Physicians of Western Medicine. Culture, Illness and Healing, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6430-3_9
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