Abstract
The mutual behavior of doctor and patient tends to conform to established social rules which vary from culture to culture. E. BRODY hypothesized that such relevant statuses are going to affect the course and outcome of psychiatric interviews, especially the initial ones. To test that hypothesis, he investigated the initial psychiatric interview as carried out by middle-class psychiatrists and lower-class psychiatric patients in Brazil. The results of this investigation are reported. A major problem of crosscultural psychiatric research is the applica tion of psychological verbal tests in languages other than the one in which they are designed. The difficulties of translation are illustrated by R. PRINCE'S and W. MOMBOUR'S observations on administering the same psychological test to English-speaking and French-speaking Canadians. This section is concluded by a review of T. K. ŒSTERREICH'S reissued classical book on Possession.
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