Bührmann M V
S Afr Med J. 1980 Nov 15;58(20):817-20.
Psychiatrists and psychologists are often requested by the legal fraternity to report on the mental state of Black people accused of an alleged crime. The question raised in this paper is whether personnel trained in the Western tradition, applying Western categories of mental states, are able to overcome their ethnocentricity. When the interviewer and the person interviewed are from widely different cultural groups, the former should make every effort to enter the inner world of the latter.
法律界经常要求精神病医生和心理学家报告被指控犯罪的黑人的精神状态。本文提出的问题是，接受西方传统训练、应用西方精神状态分类的人员是否能够克服其种族中心主义。当面试官和被面试者来自截然不同的文化群体时，前者应尽一切努力进入后者的内心世界。
