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In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-bound syndrome, culture-specific syndrome, or folk illness is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture.
Latah was initially [2] considered a culture-specific startle disorder [3] [4] that was historically regarded as personal difference rather than an illness. [1] [4] Similar conditions have been recorded within other cultures and locations.
For example, koro may fit into the group of "specific culture-imposed nosophobia" (classification with cardinal sign), [22] "the genital retraction taxon" (classification with common factors between syndromes), [23] and the group with "culture-related beliefs as causes for the occurrence" (classification according to how the syndromes might be ...
Shenkui or shen-k'uei is one of several Chinese culture-bound syndromes locally ascribed to getting stuck in yang and the needing of yin to rebalance yang (Chinese: 陽). Semen is believed to be lost through sexual activity or masturbation, nocturnal emissions, "white urine" which is believed to contain semen, or other mechanisms. Symptoms ...
The DSM-IV-TR Glossary of Culture-Bound Syndromes includes the following disorders specific to Native Americans (ordered here by decreasing frequency of diagnostic [11]]): [3] susto, “fright” or “soul loss”; dissociative trance disorder; spirit possession; mental illness due to witchcraft; ghost sickness; iich’aa and piblotoq.
In a 130-page report on the condition, commissioned by the government and published in 2006, a team of psychologists, political scientists and sociologists hypothesized that it was a culture-bound syndrome, a psychological illness endemic to a specific society. [50]
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Culture-bound syndromes are seen as those conditions that only occur in certain societies whereas standard psychiatric diagnoses are not seen that way regardless if there is some sort of cultural limitation. [1] Recent research has revealed that Amok syndrome is not culture-specific but a syndrome that could happen anywhere around the world ...