The 4thforce: Emphasizes the importance of considering cultural diversity in all aspects of clinical psychology. - It can and should influence the work of the first three forces: 1st, Psychoanalysis; 2nd, Behaviorism; 3rd, Humanism (person-centered) Culture & Clinical Psychology Cultures shape how ...
A culture-bound syndrome (or, more simply, a cultural syndrome) is an illness that is localized in space and hence found in only particular cultural contexts. From:Encyclopedia of Social Measurement,2005 About this page Add to MendeleySet alert ...
Elsass, P. (1997b). The cultural psychology of the torture syndrome: A distinction between what is universal and what is culture bound. In Treating victims of torture and violence: Theoretical, cross-cultural, and clinical implications (pp. 91-112). New York City: New York University Press....
1982a Obesity as a culture-bound syndrome. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 6: 347–364. Google Scholar Ritenbaugh, C. 1982b New approaches to old problems: Interactions of culture and nutrition. In N. J. Chrisman and T. W. Maretzki, Clinically Applied Anthropology. Dordrecht: Reidel. ...
The Analysis of Subjective Cultureset the stage for a number of decades of research on culture and psychology that ultimately placed culture in the mainstream of the field. One important research direction it sparked was the investigation of individualism–collectivism as a cultural syndrome – that ...
Jerusalem syndrome and Paris syndrome are just two extreme manifestations of mental illness that travelers have experienced while visiting foreign lands.
The papers in this issue grapple with a conundrum: what should we make of the fact that eating disorders, long considered to be the consummate culturebound syndrome of Western (post) industrial modernity, seem to be on the rise in purportedly "non-Western" or "non-modern" contexts across th...
I do think that underlying both Miller’s claims and Stockholm Syndrome is a basic human need to be part of a group , even to fit in when one is being threatened and abused. This need to belong is a good thing, in itself, but can easily be twisted into something evil. The simplest...
Put quite simply organizational designs are culturally-bound paradigms for solutions; they are operations of cultural frames of reference that determine how problems are solved and relationships defined (Trompenaars, 1993); they guide strategy for organizational development. Essentially, principles associated...
(68, Varna, insurance agent, pensioner, caring for a daughter who has Down syndrome) strongly believes that “the truth is that it’s mothers who are the primary carers of these children” and, like many other members of what she calls a “parental cooperative”, it is she who took her...