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Mental Disease in Africans: Racial Determinism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

H. J. Simons
H. J. Simons*
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School of African Studies, University of Cape Town
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There has grown up in the past 30 years in East Africa a school of medical psychologists which sets out to interpret African thought processes, personality traits and mental disorders in terms of a racially genetic and cultural disposition. A correlation is assumed or suggested between a specific brain structure, social behaviour, psychology and psycho-pathology. Explanations are couched in terms of a racial determinism, and involve an assertion of inferiority as compared with the White race.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 104 , Issue 435 , April 1958 , pp. 377 - 388
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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