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The Culture-Bound Syndromes - Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric and Anthropological Interest (Paperback, Softcover Reprint Of The Original 1st Ed. 1985)
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The Culture-Bound Syndromes - Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric and Anthropological Interest (Paperback, Softcover Reprint Of The Original 1st Ed. 1985)
Series: Culture, Illness and Healing
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In the last few years there has been a great revival of interest in
culture-bound psychiatric syndromes. A spate of new papers has been
published on well known and less familiar syndromes, and there have
been a number of attempts to put some order into the field of
inquiry. In a review of the literature on culture-bound syndromes
up to 1969 Yap made certain suggestions for organizing thinking
about them which for the most part have not received general
acceptance (see Carr, this volume, p. 199). Through the seventies
new descriptive and conceptual work was scarce, but in the last few
years books and papers discussing the field were authored or edited
by Tseng and McDermott (1981), AI-Issa (1982), Friedman and Faguet
(1982) and Murphy (1982). In 1983 Favazza summarized his
understanding of the state of current thinking for the fourth
edition of the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, and a
symposium on culture-bound syndromes was organized by Kenny for the
Eighth International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnology. The
strong est impression to emerge from all this recent work is that
there is no substantive consensus, and that the very concept,
"culture-bound syndrome" could well use some serious
reconsideration. As the role of culture-specific beliefs and prac
tices in all affliction has come to be increasingly recognized it
has become less and less clear what sets the culture-bound
syndromes apart."
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