Research Paper On Culture Bound Syndrome
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RUNNING HEAD: Culture-Bound Syndrome
Basic and Cultural related Syndromes
Author Note
Prepared for Psychology 100
Taught by Bahman Najarian
Abstract
(The Culture-bound syndrome was that certain mental, emotion and behaviour issue are restricted to specific social orders, firstly the term come under specific name in 1940-50s. )There is no doubt social orders affect how symptoms are seen,cleared up and from where help is searched for. Quick globalization and industrialization have made the world a more diminutive place and social orders are all things considered more affected by various social orders. This has provoked to social and financial changes in parts of the world where such clutters were seen more from time to time. …show more content…
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Introduction
The Culture-bound syndrome was that certain mental, emotion and behaviour issue are restricted to specific social orders, firstly the term come under specific name in 1940-50s.
Every society has there claim characteristic causes,which can be identified for a few diseases. It is furthermore seen as,that it's a mix of mental as will as emotional issue and significant reactions that are only recognizable inside a specific culture and are to a great degree phenomenal in some other communities. With the time, changes came in DSM-5(the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders edition fifth) is abandoned the term “culture bound syndrome”, but its continuously in use in many parts of the world.
Over the years it come out as strange, exotic indigenous conditions seen in societies which are less likely to developed psychologically. Many of these disorders has been reported from multiple cultures using different idioms of distress by time to time. In contrast,”culture-bound syndromes are generally limited to specific societies or culture areas and are localized, folk, diagnostic categories that frame coherent meanings for certain repetitive, patterned, and troubling sets of experiences and observations” (American Psychiatric Association,1994 :
844)
Background
As in historical point of view, Yap (1962) was the first to describe culture-bound psychogenic psychoses – a term subsequently abbreviated to ‘culture-bound syndromes. These were seen as ‘rare, exotic unpredictable and chaotic behaviors at their core among uncivilized people.’ “There is no doubt that this was a reflection of the existing diagnostic systems where these systems were often difficult to classify. Bhugra and Jacob suggest that these behaviors were diagnosed with somewhat limited understanding of the cultural context. On the one hand, this is really surprising, as psychiatry is a medical specialty strongly influenced by cultural and social factors; but on the other hand, psychiatry may reflect somewhat rigid, gentle and paternalistic views.”(Web of Science,Pg.7)
RUNNING HEAD: Culture-Bound Syndrome
Basic and Cultural related Syndromes
Author Note
Prepared for Psychology 100
Taught by Bahman Najarian
Abstract
(The Culture-bound syndrome was that certain mental, emotion and behaviour issue are restricted to specific social orders, firstly the term come under specific name in 1940-50s. )There is no doubt social orders affect how symptoms are seen,cleared up and from where help is searched for. Quick globalization and industrialization have made the world a more diminutive place and social orders are all things considered more affected by various social orders. This has provoked to social and financial changes in parts of the world where such clutters were seen more from time to time. …show more content…
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Introduction
The Culture-bound syndrome was that certain mental, emotion and behaviour issue are restricted to specific social orders, firstly the term come under specific name in 1940-50s.
Every society has there claim characteristic causes,which can be identified for a few diseases. It is furthermore seen as,that it's a mix of mental as will as emotional issue and significant reactions that are only recognizable inside a specific culture and are to a great degree phenomenal in some other communities. With the time, changes came in DSM-5(the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders edition fifth) is abandoned the term “culture bound syndrome”, but its continuously in use in many parts of the world.
Over the years it come out as strange, exotic indigenous conditions seen in societies which are less likely to developed psychologically. Many of these disorders has been reported from multiple cultures using different idioms of distress by time to time. In contrast,”culture-bound syndromes are generally limited to specific societies or culture areas and are localized, folk, diagnostic categories that frame coherent meanings for certain repetitive, patterned, and troubling sets of experiences and observations” (American Psychiatric Association,1994 :
844)
Background
As in historical point of view, Yap (1962) was the first to describe culture-bound psychogenic psychoses – a term subsequently abbreviated to ‘culture-bound syndromes. These were seen as ‘rare, exotic unpredictable and chaotic behaviors at their core among uncivilized people.’ “There is no doubt that this was a reflection of the existing diagnostic systems where these systems were often difficult to classify. Bhugra and Jacob suggest that these behaviors were diagnosed with somewhat limited understanding of the cultural context. On the one hand, this is really surprising, as psychiatry is a medical specialty strongly influenced by cultural and social factors; but on the other hand, psychiatry may reflect somewhat rigid, gentle and paternalistic views.”(Web of Science,Pg.7)