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5. Middle East

PSYCHIATRY IN THE ARAB EAST by JOHN RACY. Acta Psy chiatrica Scandinavica, Supplementum 211. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1970. Monograph. Reviewed by H. E. SOUFI

J. RACY surveys psychiatry in the Arab East. His monograph deals with childrearing practices, personality features common to Arabs, treatment facilities, folk psychiatry, and cultural psychiatry. Under the heading of cultural psychiatry, impressions regarding the frequency of mental disorders and culture-related variations in symptomatology are presented. According to Racy, openly expressed feelings of guilt and self-depreciation are unusual among Arab depressives. This view is not shared by M. F. EL-ISLAM, who, in the article which follows, reports on feelings of self-reproach in a fairly high percentage of Egyptian depressives; Christians (Coptic) showed no greater frequency of such symptoms than Moslems.

Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 7, No. 2, 169-172 (1970)
DOI: 10.1177/136346157000700217
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