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Community-initiated research: a study of psychiatrists' conceptualisations of ‘cannabis psychosis’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Roland Littlewood
Roland Littlewood*
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University College London (formerly Senior Lecturer, Birmingham University)
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Concern among black and ethnic minorities with current research in ‘transcultural psychiatry’ entails future work taking into account their collaboration to minimise the possibility that it is prejudicial to their interests. An instance is given of a project initiated by black community groups which looks at psychiatric conceptualisations of a diagnosis commonly used locally in inner-city Birmingham: cannabis psychosis. Responsibility remains with the researcher.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 12 , Issue 11 , November 1988 , pp. 486 - 488
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