Mental illnesses occur throughout all cultures and societies although very often the stage,
severity and nature of presenting symptoms can vary tremendously. The help-seeking …

Within the last two decades, the study of the relationship between sociocultural variables
and psychopathology has enjoyed a remarkable growth in popularity among a broad …

Some studies estimate that each year, around a quarter of the population of Western
countries will suffer from at least one mental disorder. Should this be interpreted as evidence …

Human beings are fundamentally cultural beings: we acquire our ability to function as adults
through developmental processes that are shaped by culture, and we live within culturally …

The evolution of cultural psychiatry over the last few decades has been an interesting
phenomenon to observe. Psychiatry is perhaps one of the younger disciplines of medicine …

The recent interest of anthropologists in textuality, narrativity and phenomenology has
shifted the concerns of cultural psychiatrists toward the consideration of the inner subjective …

The received categories of psychiatric nosology are lenses through which clinicians see the
world. Cultural psychiatry asks that we examine these lenses to understand the distortions …

Although modern psychiatry has long recognised the role culture plays in the manifestation
of mental illness since the early years of Kraepelin and Freud, active, systematic, scientific …

The convergence between the demystification of psychiatric diagnosis and the increasing
professional awareness of a cultural viewpoint offers the opportunity for research to …