culture-bound syndromes

They are the kinds of illnesses that psychologists refer to as culture-bound syndromes.

He has written on culture-bound syndromes more generally.

Other reported culture-bound syndromes are latah and koro.

Westerners have their own culture-bound syndromes.

Culture-bound syndromes, cultural variations, and psychopathology.

Culture-Bound Syndromes.

He has also contributed to anthropological and medical understanding of culture-bound syndromes, particularly in Chinese and East Asian culture (such as Koro).

Dr. Cho's partner, Dr. Lan, a Chinese immigrant in her 40's, is a psychiatrist who also specializes in culture-bound syndromes.

Introduction to Culture-Bound Syndromes, by Ronald C. Simons, Psychiatric Times, November 2001, Vol.

The fourth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classifies the below syndromes as culture-bound syndromes:

Researchers have reported many "culture-bound syndromes" like "ataque de nervios," a cluster of symptoms, including uncontrollable screaming and attacks of crying, found mostly among Hispanics, particularly Caribbean women.

But such culture-bound syndromes, which are listed in the standard reference of psychiatry, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, are not limited to Asians.

This probably accounts for the scarcity of English-language work on Western culture-bound syndromes, though these conditions are existent and some researchers have attempted to treat with the phenomena in their own parent cultures.

Guarnaccia & Rogler (1999) have argued in favor of investigating culture-bound syndromes on their own terms, and believe that the syndromes have enough cultural integrity to be treated as independent objects of research.

From Amok to Zar: Culture-Bound Syndromes Several patterns of aberrant behavior and troubling experience are recognized mostly in specific localities or societies, and may or may not be linked to an official diagnostic category.

Some studies suggest that culture-bound syndromes represent an acceptable way within a specific culture (and cultural context) among certain vulnerable individuals (i.e. an ataque de nervios at a funeral in Puerto Rico) to express distress in the wake of a traumatic experience.

Additionally, certain culture-bound syndromes such as "ataques de nervios" ("attacks of nerves") identified in Hispanic populations, and popularized by the Almodóvar film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, exemplify psychiatric phenomena that encompass both somatoform and dissociative symptoms and that have been linked to psychological trauma.