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Psychiatric diagnosis requires doctors to make judgements based on their understanding of their patients’ mental states and emotional processes, and relate these to a ‘normal’ or ‘healthy standard’. Clearly this exercise is (at the very least) much more difficult where doctor and patient do not share a language, a set of concepts around the nature of mind and emotion, and an understanding of what behaviours fall within and without each others’ cultural norms. 55 Psychiatrists, Littlewood and Lipsedge (1997), comment on the level of misunderstanding and misinterpretation, regularly occurring between psychiatrist and patient, leading to situations where substantially. | TIME TO LISTEN Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid Mary B. Anderson Dayna Brown Isabella Jean TIME TO LISTEN Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid Mary B. Anderson Dayna Brown Isabella Jean CDA Collaborative Learning Projects Cambridge .