The term culture bound syndrome refers to psychopathological entities that are not mere variants of well recognized psychiatric disorder, have a geographically defined prevalence, and are largely determined, at least in their symptoms by the beliefs and assumptions prevalent in the native culture. Dha...
The terms culture-bound syndrome, culture-specific disorder, and folk illness are also used to refer to such phenomena. Culture-bound disorders occur throughout the parts world. Some examples are amok, latah, and koro (parts of Southeast Asia); semen loss or dhat (East India); brain fag ...
“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 ...
This article examines the development of koro's epistemic status as a paradigm for understanding culture-specific disorders in modern psychiatry. Koro entered the DSM-IV as a culture-bound syndrome in 1994, and it refers to a person's overpowering belief that his (or her) genitalia is retractin...
The term culture bound syndrome refers to psychopathological entities that are not mere variants of well recognized psychiatric disorder, have a geographically defined prevalence, and are largely determined, at least in their symptoms by the beliefs and assumptions prevalent in the native culture. Dha...
culture-bound syndromeKoroSinophonetranscultural psychiatryThis article examines the development of koro’s epistemic status as a paradigm for understanding culture-specific disorders in modern psychiatry. Koro entered the DSM-IV as a culture-bound syndrome in 1994, and it refers to a person’s ...