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Regarding patients\u2019 problems as not being due to mental illness may result in delaying use of Western mental health services.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Methods.\u2002<\/jats:bold> Data collection took place in 2001. Twenty\u2010eight Chinese\u2010Australian patients with mental illness and their caregivers were interviewed at home, drawing on Kleinman's explanatory model and studies of cultural transmission. Interviews were tape\u2010recorded and transcribed, and analysed for plots and themes.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Findings.\u2002<\/jats:bold> Chinese\u2010Australians combined traditional knowledge with Western medical knowledge to develop their own labels for various kinds of mental disorders, including \u2018mental illness\u2019, \u2018physical illness\u2019, \u2018normal problems of living\u2019 and \u2018psychological problems\u2019. As they learnt more about Western conceptions of psychology and psychiatry, their understanding of some disorders changed. 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