title: Western psychiatry and the Xhosa patient.
abstract: The difficulties of the Western-trained psychiatrist in dealing with Xhosa patients are threefold; the language and intricacies of its usage, the cultural beliefs, customs and rituals and the inapplicability of the Western psychiatric model to people of a different culture. To a lesser extent, all White medical staff experience the same problems.
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D044383:Black People; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008487:Medical History Taking; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D008606:Mental Processes; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry; D013019:South Africa; D013609:Taboo