Abstract
Differences in symptomatology have been noted between American Negroes and American Whites, and DE HOYOS attempts to show why fewer symptoms are recorded for Negro patients than for white patients. The next article deals with a similar problem but in a different manner. PIEDMONT reports a systematic comparison of schizophrenic symptomatology and family dynamics in two contrasting cultural groups: the Polish and the Germans of Buffalo, N.Y. The author attributes differences in symptomatology to cultural differences. Cultural differences are also invoked by SIMON to explain why involutional psychotic reactions are more frequently diagnosed in white male and female patients than in negro female patients, and very rarely in negro male patients. BOYER'S article on the folk psychiatry of the Apaches in Mescalero Indian Reservation presents interesting comparisons between Apache shamanism and Western psychiatry.
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