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In this chapter, critical issues in psychiatric classification related to national and cross-cultural points of view are discussed. It may be relevant at the start to mention the author’s psychiatric background: After training in the United Kingdom and United States, the author spent most of his clinical years in India, and for the last 6 years has been working with the World Health Organization in the eastern Mediterranean region. Hence, it is quite likely that his observations are influenced by experience in the countries of the Third World. In a way, this may be good because the majority of the mentally ill of the world live in these countries, and their point of view often is not well represented in the world fora of psychiatric classification.
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Wig, N.N. (1994). An Overview of Cross-Cultural and National Issues in Psychiatric Classification. In: Mezzich, J.E., Kastrup, M.C., Honda, Y. (eds) Psychiatric Diagnosis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0857-0_1
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