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Culture-Bound Syndrome, Thanya Lunchaprasith, Teeravut Wiwattarangkul, Sorawit Wainipitapong
Culture-Bound Syndrome, Thanya Lunchaprasith, Teeravut Wiwattarangkul, Sorawit Wainipitapong
Chulalongkorn Medical Journal
Many mental disorders are expressed in different characteristics, as a result of cultural factors. These conditions, known as culture-bound syndrome, have been studied in the field of psychiatry and social anthropology. Some mental abnormalities are treated as distinctive psychiatric disorders; many others were not yet clinically recognized. Therefore, patients with the conditions should be evaluated and treated in both psychiatric and cultural practices. It should be noted that, cultural specific mental disorders gradually fade in the age of globalization.