No speak much English: (or how I stopped worrying about the theory and began treating the indigent Greek).
A group comprising lower-class Greek immigrant patients with chronic psychiatric illness has been conducted for over three years. The barriers of language, culture and class have been overcome. An analysis of these barriers, as demonstrated in the group, is provided. Contentions about the effects of culture on psychopathology and treatment are discussed.
D001315:Australia; D003469:Culture; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012923:Social Class