Transcultural
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Transcultural may refer to:
- Transcultural psychiatry, also known as Cross-cultural psychiatryCross-cultural psychiatryCross-cultural psychiatry or transcultural psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry concerned with the cultural and ethnic context of mental disorders and psychiatric services...
- TransculturationTransculturationTransculturation is a term coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1940 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures....
, the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures - TransculturalismTransculturalismTransculturalism is defined as "seeing oneself in the other". Transcultural is in turn described as "extending through all human cultures" or "involving, encompassing, or combining elements of more than one culture".-Other definitions:In 1940, transculturalism was originally defined by Fernando...
- Transcultural diffussion