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Hospital das Forças Armadas - Polo Porto (HFAR-PP), Nurse, Portugal

Publications

• Literature Review   
  Culture Bound Syndromes (CBS)
  Author(s): Ana Almeida* and Miguel Trigo
  
  Ethnopsychiatry mobilizes the cultural knowledge of the individual/group, considering the beliefs, perceptions, interpreta- tions, and actions that are culturally constructed and acquired. From a holistic and humanist perspective of Care, the contex- tualization of the individual in their cultural specificity optimizes the process of transitioning health / mental illness. Based on the descriptive method/ reflexive analysis, typical culture disorders (CBS – Culture Bound Syndromes) present, seeking to understand the influence of culture on cognitions/behaviors in the area of health/mental illness: • Pibloktoc or Arctic hysteria (Lapland/ Siberia) - dissociative disorder • Taijin kyofusho (Japan)- social phobia • Koro (Malaysia/Thailand) - delirium • Delirious Boufée (Haiti/Africa) - psychotic outbreak There is a link between diseases, etiologies, diagno.. Read More»
  

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