|
|||||
|
|
A Four-Day Diagnostic-Therapeutic Home Visit in Turkey |
|
| Authors: | RICHARD A. GARDNER M.D. |
| Affiliation: | Associate in Child Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City;Faculty, William A. White Psychoanalytic Institute, New York City. |
| Abstract: | The author has presented his experiences during a four-day home visit in Istanbul, where he was invited for the purpose of making a diagnosis and recommendations for the care of a 20-year-old English-speaking Turkish patient. His preparations are described, as are the details of his conduct of the evaluation. His findings and recommendations have been presented. Emphasis is placed throughout on the importance of the examiner acquainting himself in detail with his patient's cultural, social, and ethnic milieu. The way in which such information contributed to a clearer understanding of the patient's psychological difficulties is demonstrated. A Greek and a Turkish psychiatrists' comments on the article are published together with a final note by the author. |
| Keywords: | |