Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry (PDF)

Wen-Shing Tseng, M.D. is a professor of psychiatry at University of Hawaii School of Medicine. He has served as chairman of Transcultural Psychiatric Section of World Psychiatric Association for two terms from 1983 to 1993, and presently is honorable advisor for the Section. As a consultant to the World Health Organization, he has traveled extensively to many countries in Asia and the Pacific. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (USA), and guest professor of the Institute of Mental Health, Beijing University, China. Relating to the subject of culture and mental health, he has coordinated numerous international conferences in Honolulu, Beijing, Tokyo, and Budapest. He has edited or authored more than a dozen books, including Culture and Psychopathology and Culture and Psychotherapy.

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"...this is a gem of a book, a rich source of data.. this book is one of encyclopedic proportions."
--AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

"...this volume stands alone as the encyclopedic knowledge repository for the relatively young field of cross-cultural psychiatry... "
—CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY

"This remarkable piece of work is bound to become a classic reference in psychiatry."
—TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY

"This book should be a welcome addition to anyone's library as a basic textbook.. and as a reference text for cultural psychiatry."
—PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES

"The Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry represents a landmark achievement... It is destined to become a classic in the field."
—JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY

"This is a great book that deserves to be... used as a desk-side reference for clinicians in their daily clinical work."
—JAPANESE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY

"There is currently no other volume like it on the market."
—INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PSYCHIATRY

"the book provides an expansive and conclusive array of information...the author provides a one-stop oasis..."
—DOODY PUBLICATIONS

"Tseng's goal was to write the first comprehensive, single-authored handbook on the field... He succeeds admirably..."
—LIBRARY JOURNAL (October 15, 2001)

"This handbook fills a gap! The present volume is a crowning achievement..."
—Wolfgang G. Jilek, M.D., M.A., M.Sc., Dipl. Psych., FRCP(C)
Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia; and former Chair, Transcultural Psychiatric Section, World Psychiatric Association

"This is a unique volume in its comprehensiveness. Scholarly, authoritative, and up-to-date, it is also fresh and vivid."
—Juris G. Draguns, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University

"This long-awaited compendium provides a unified overview of the field."
—Raymond Prince, M.D.
Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University; and