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 …

The results of epidemiological, clinical, and cross-cultural studies of psychopathology are
reviewed. They point to a moderate, but not unlimited impact of cultural factors upon …

The notion of “cultural conceptions of mental health” refers to “common sense” knowledge
which is used to interpret social and medical experience, and which plays an important role …

This chapter examines culture's role in child psychopathology and its development through
an examination of cultural diversity. The specific aims are: to review and synthesize the …

The phenomenology of major mental disorders (schizophrenia and affective disorders) is
recognized in all parts of the world. It was previously assumed that culture merely plays a …

Abstract The Working with Culture seminar is offered as a course during the month long
Annual McGill Summer Program for Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, attended by local …

Cultural psychiatry is now a mature discipline. Deeper analyses are addressing the
complexities of sociosomatics—the translation of culture into bodily experience—and, thus …

Research based information on the impact of culture on psychopathology is reviewed, with
particular reference to depression, somatization, schizophrenia, anxiety, and dissociation. A …