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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 130, No. 12

Articles | December 01, 1973

Shared Ethnic Scotoma

EDITH T. SHAPIRO; HENRY PINSKER

Am J Psychiatry 1973;130:1338-1341.

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Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry. College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at Newark, N.J.

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York, and Chief, Inpatient Service, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, N.Y.

1973, The American Psychiatric Association

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A number of writers have advanced the opinion that it is beneficial to a patient to have a therapist of the same ethnic background. The authors point out that this may lead to "blind spots" that prevent the therapist from seeing the irrationality of certain of the patient's attitudes. They give three case examples that illustrate this point.

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