transculturaladj.
Transcending the limitations or crossing the boundaries of cultures; applicable to more than one culture; cross-cultural; spec. transcultural psychiatry, psychiatry applied to disorders due to migration from one cultural environment to another.
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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > types of
neuropsychiatry1918
psychiatric social work1919
social psychiatry1924
child psychiatry1925
orthopsychiatry1929
phenomenology1930
transcultural psychiatry1958
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > across cultures
cross-culturala1942
transcultural1958
1958 Internat. Jrnl. Social Psychiatry 3 245 (heading) Some problems of transcultural psychiatry.
1964 I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 37 Social science is interdisciplinary because social problems are transcultural.
1973 Observer 28 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 34/5 Sailing ships are gone but the sea shanty is still sung: the function is altered but the song remains: the stuff is transcultural.
1976 Daily Tel. 27 Apr. 2/8 The congress, on transcultural psychiatry, is being organised by the university and the World Federation for Mental Health.
1978 Church Times 3 Feb. 6/5 The resolution of the problem suggested depends on a distinction between meanings which are universal and transcultural and the understanding and expression of those meanings which are limited historically and culturally.
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