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. 2005 Winter;26(4):215-35.
doi: 10.1007/s10912-005-7698-x.

The heresy of African-centered psychology

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The heresy of African-centered psychology

Naa Oyo A Kwate. J Med Humanit. 2005 Winter.

Abstract

This paper contends that African-centered models of psychopathology represent a heretical challenge to orthodox North American Mental Health. Heresy is the defiant rejection of ideology from a smaller community within the orthodoxy. African-centered models of psychopathology use much of the same language and ideas about the diagnostic process as Western psychiatry and clinical psychology but explicitly reject the ideological foundations of illness definition. The nature of the heretical critique is discussed, and implications for the future of this school of thought are offered.

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