Aliens and Alienists
Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry

In this book two psychiatrists assess the psychological consequences of migration and prejudice for groups as diverse as West Indians, Turkish Cypriots and Hasidic Jews. The authors conclude that mental illness can be an intelligible response to disadvantage and prejudice.

Ethnic minorities and the psychiatrist
medicine and racism
the question of black depression
mental illness among immigrants to Britain
a digression on diagnosis
the price of adaptation
sick societies
a prelude to insanity?
normal and abnormal
the illness as a communication
some conclusions
the development of "transcultural psychiatry" in Britain 1982-9.