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Hispanic Mental Health Research: A Case for Cultural Psychiatry

University of Pittsburgh, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic

Contemporary research involving Hispanic mental health is critically e-xamined. Selected problem areas that span a spectrum covering folk/traditional conceptualizations of mental illness, standardized concepts and methods employed in epidemiology, approaches to psychiatric diagnosis in biomedical settings, and more basic epistemological assumptions involving psychiatric nosology and theory receive systematic attention. The idea is developed that a dominating and exclusive "establishment psychiatry " stipulates concepts and methods of mental health research, thereby setting priorities and legitimating distinctive modes ofpractice and reimbursement for treatment. The need to challenge and broaden establishment psychiatry's paradigms and biases with insights and knowledge drawn from culturally sensitive Hispanic facts in contemporary mental health paradigms pertaining to psychiatric theory and practice is seen to contribute to a truly representative cultural psychiatry. These and related issues are analyzed using a framework that centers on mental health research but includes ideas from social medicine, political economy, and social evolution.

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