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Ethnic Minorities and the Mental Health Act: Patterns of Explanation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Roland Littlewood
Roland Littlewood*
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University Department of Psychiatry, All Saints Hospital, Birmingham
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Explanations of the over-representation of black psychiatric patients under the Mental Health Act tend to emphasise either the particular psychopathology of black patients or alternatively to locate it within the decisions of individual psychiatrists and police in a racist society. Both contain specific (conspiratorial) and general (cultural) variants. The two models are incomplete in themselves.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 10 , Issue 11 , November 1986 , pp. 306 - 308
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