The present article offers an overview of the historical influences, conceptual assumptions,
and major findings and issues associated with the study of culture and psychopathology …

After decades of relative neglect and marginalization within psychiatry, the study of the
relationship between culture and psychopathology has emerged as topic of considerable …

This chapter provides an overview of the relationship between culture and psychopathology
with special emphasis upon core concepts and historical forces within the study of culture …

Reaction patterns labelled psychopathologic are believed to be universal, indicating their
biologic roots. All over the world there are people who express delusions or report …

This entry includes the following topics: types of culture-bound disorders; historical origins;
conceptual issues; why are culture-bound disorders important for western psychiatry; the …

Dialogues across disciplines were also initiated during this time. For example, Kleinman and
Good's (1985) infl uential volume, Culture and Depression, brought together the research of …

In recent years, the field of cultural psychiatry has gained recognition and accumulated
evidence of its clinical relevance. This article examines the intersections of culture and …

Awareness of and attention to cultural diversity has grown increasingly important to clinical
psychology over the past several decades. Cultural psychology has not yet had much …

Since the publication of DSM-IV in 1994, neurobiologists and anthropologists have criticized
the rigidity of its diagnostic criteria that appear to exclude whole classes of alternate illness …

The current scene in the field of cultural psychiatry shows a vigorous growth, multifaceted
conceptual and research developments and more relevant clinical presence. After a …