Cultural Formulation

Juan E. Mezzich, M.D., Ph.D. is currently President of the World Psychiatric Association. An author or co-author of over 200 scientific journal articles and book chapters, he is professor of psychiatry and director of the Division of Psychiatric Epidemiology and International Center for Mental Health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University.Giovanni Caracci, M.D. is professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University. Formally he was vice chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He lectures widely on urban medicine.

Mezzich and Caracci certainly deserve immense admiration for willingly straying into territories where biological determinists and nosological pedants normally hunt.... A revolutionary book cloaked in establishmentarian language.

• Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Historical and Conceptual Background of the Cultural Formulation: Section IntroductionChapter 3 Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Cultural PerspectiveChapter 4 The Cultural Context of Diagnosis and Therapy: A View From Medical AnthropologyChapter 5 Help-Seeking Pathways: A Unifying Concept in Mental Health CareChapter 6 On Illness Meaning and Clinical Interpretation: Not "Rational Man" but a Rational Approach to Man the Sufferer / Man the HealerChapter 7 On Culturally Enhancing the DSM-IV Multiaxial FormulationChapter 8 Cultural Comments on Multiaxial IssuesPart 9 Development and Characteristics of the Cultural Formulation: Section IntroductionChapter 10 Cultural Formulation: Development and Critical ReviewChapter 11 Cultural Formulation of Psychiatric DiagnosisChapter 12 Cultural Formulation and Comprehensive DiagnosisChapter 13 Issues in the Assessment and Diagnosis of Culturally Diverse IndividualsPart 14 Reflections and Prospects on the Cultural Formulation: Section IntroductionChapter 15 Framing Research on Culture in Psychiatric Diagnosis: The Case of DSM-IVChapter 16 The Place of Culture in DSM-IVChapter 17 Using the DSM-IV Cultural Formulation to Teach PsychodynamicsChapter 18 Introducing the Cultural Formulation to Mental Health Care in Stockholm, SwedenChapter 19 The Cultural Interview in the Netherlands: The Cultural Formulation in Your PocketPart 20 Clinical Case Illustrations on the Cultural Formulation: Section IntroductionChapter 21 Psychosis Following Qi-Gong in a Chinese ImmigrantChapter 22 Diagnosis and Treatment of Nervios and Ataques in a Female Puerto Rican MigrantChapter 23 Treatment of an Indian Woman with Major Depression by a Latina Therapist: Cultural FormulationChapter 24 Cultural Formulation: Depression and BAck Pain in a Young Male Turkish Immigrant in Basel, SwitzerlandChapter 25 Cultural Formulation Psychiatric Diagnoses: Disturbance of Mental and Spiritual Balance in a Javanese Woman