CULTURAL PSYCHIATRY - FROM MUSEUMS OF EXOTICA TO THE GLOBAL AGORA

Authors
KIRMAYER LJ JARVIS E
Citation
Lj. Kirmayer et E. Jarvis, CULTURAL PSYCHIATRY - FROM MUSEUMS OF EXOTICA TO THE GLOBAL AGORA, Current opinion in psychiatry, 11(2), 1998, pp. 183-189
Citations number
74
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry
Journal title
Current opinion in psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
09517367
Volume
11
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
183 - 189
Database
ISI
SICI code
0951-7367(1998)11:2<183:CP-FMO>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
The past year has seen significant advances in the cross-national comp arative epidemiology of schizophrenia, and affective, anxiety and soma toform disorders. Ethnographic, historic and epidemiologic work has re fined our notions of culture-related syndromes and idioms of distress. The cultural assessment and formulation outlined in the DSM-IV is dev eloping into a basic clinical tool for work in multicultural settings. (C) 1998 Rapid Science Ltd.