Culture Bound Syndrome(redirected from Culture-bound syndrome)Also found in: Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. A generic term for any of a number of recurrent, locality-specific patterns of aberrant behavior and troubling experience, many of which cannot be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic entity;...
Culture‐Bound Syndromedoi:10.1002/9781118410868.wbehibs189anthropologycross‐culturalculturemental healthpsychiatryLaura GriffithUniversity of Oxford UKAmerican Cancer Society
文化束缚综合征(Culture-bound syndrome)或称文化特异综合征(culture-specific syndrome)是指只能在特定社会或文化下,才能认可作一种疾病的精神和躯体症状集合,属于特殊文化专有的病理行为综合征,其不会在其他文化中承认为一种疾病,且一般不会发现患者有任何器质性病变。着惊、邪病 神经衰弱 上火 肾亏也被认为属于中...
culture-specific syndrome (redirected fromCulture-bound syndrome) Medical Wikipedia culture-specific syndrome [¦kəl·chər spə¦sif·ik ′sin‚drōm] (psychology) Any form of disturbed behavior that is specific to a certain cultural system and does not conform to western classification...
Culture-bound syndrome is a broad rubric that encompasses certain behavioral, affective and cognitive manifestations seen in specific cultures. These manifestations are deviant from the usual behavior of the individuals of that culture and are a reason for distress/discomfort. This entitles these manifest...
The culture-reactive syndromes, or culture-bound disorders, have long been discussed in the transcultural psychiatric literature (see Aberle 1952; Rubel 1964; Van Brero 1895; etc.). Early discussions by physicians, missionaries and visitors to diverse regions of the world who brought forth descriptio...
Culture-bound syndrome is a term used to describe the uniqueness of some syndromes in specific cultures. Dhat (semen-loss anxiety) has been considered to be an exotic 'neurosis of the Orient'. To ascertain the presence of similar symptoms and syndromes in different cultures and historical settin...
Copyright information © 1981 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht About this chapter Cite this chapter Tan, ES. (1981). Culture-Bound Syndromes among Overseas Chinese. In: Kleinman, A., Lin, TY. (eds) Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture. Culture, Illness, and Healing, vol...
“susto” is a culture-bound syndrome found among Indian-origin Latinos in which the sufferer has an acute fright experience as a result of an interpersonal loss of face (or hex placed on them) followed by the “loss of their soul,” which results in a chronic depression. “Ataques de ...
Nervios as a Culture-Bound Syndrome among Puerto Rican Women. Smith College Studies in Social Work 1985;55(2):115-136.Wolf-Dresp,C.S. Nervios as a Culture-bound Syndrome among Puerto Rican Women[J].Smith College Studies In Social Work,1985,(02)....