Sayed M A, Collins D T, Takahashi T
Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas 66601-0829, USA.
Bull Menninger Clin. 1998 Fall;62(4):439-54.
The authors analyze the role of culture and its influence on the inpatient psychiatric treatment setting through an examination of the contrasting beliefs and assumptions of the Euro-American and Arabic-Islamic traditions. Three case vignettes illustrate the form and impact of these contrasts on various aspects of the cross-cultural encounter when Arab patients are treated in a Western psychodynamically informed hospital setting. The impact of the culture of origin on both treaters and patients is examined. These observations can also be extrapolated to other significant cross-cultural encounters within the hospital setting. Cultural differences may contribute to either a mismatch of expectations or to a creative accommodation of them on the part of both patients and treaters.
作者通过审视欧美传统与阿拉伯 - 伊斯兰传统截然不同的信仰和假设，分析了文化的作用及其对住院精神科治疗环境的影响。三个病例 vignettes 说明了当阿拉伯患者在西方以精神动力学为导向的医院环境中接受治疗时，这些差异在跨文化接触的各个方面的形式和影响。研究了患者原生文化对治疗者和患者双方的影响。这些观察结果也可外推至医院环境中其他重要的跨文化接触情况。文化差异可能导致期望的不匹配，也可能促使患者和治疗者双方创造性地适应这些差异。
