Anthropology
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Abstract

Psychiatry: Anthropological Aspects

A. Kraus*

This article describes how different philosophical, cultural, social, and biological anthropologies have influenced not only ‘object theory’ (the way in which mental illness can become an object of scientific research) but also methodology (the access to this respective object) in psychiatry.

Published Date: 2021-01-20; Received Date: 2020-12-30