Research Group Transcultural Psychiatry
The research focuses on transcultural psychiatry and intercultural psychotherapy, intercultural opening of the general mental health care system, therapeutic work using language and cultural interpreters, trauma-research related to refugee experiences, medical anthropology, medical humanities and ethnopsychiatry.
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The multidisciplinary Research Group Transcultural Psychiatry is integrated into the Center for Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Supervision.
The interlocking of scientific and humanistic approaches as well as the connection of quantitative and qualitative research methods are the basis of our perspective on critical reflection and adequate research. This also includes a critical discussion of the concepts, terms and definitions used in this area of research, such as culture, "race", ethnicity, migrants, people with a migrant background, intercultural opening, cross-cultural competence, acculturation/integration etc. as well as a discussion about tendencies of culturalization, stereotyping and deficit perspective.
In collaboration with the Research Group on Migration and Health Care we do research on social inequality and discrimination and transcultural approaches in public health research.
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Head of the research group
Head, Center of Cross-Cultural Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (ZIPP) and Research Division Intercultural Migration and Care Research, Social Psychiatry
