HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mental Disorder, Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Nosology
22 Nov 2016
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Lecture 8b culture, globalization and mental illness. Ethnocentricity: are these really non-western? push everything else to the side: as a consequence, we treat the western as what a mental illness is and. Are differential rates due to diagnosing patterns or differences in real. Are these just expressions of universal disorders with culture-specific: )ssue with who(cid:495)s culture is being represented. Theorists have debated the extent to which psychiatry can be truly considered cross-cultural and universal. Some assume cross-cultural portability of psychiatric theory practice: can use depression as a diagnosis, but people can show depression in different ways, express it differently. Others devoted to advancing psychiatric anthropology as a scholarly discipline: mental illness can only exist in a given culture, deviance from a particular cultures norms and values; disconnection between a person(cid:495)s norms and values. Transcultural psychiatry tries and tackle the points of disagreements. Aims to incorporate cultural understanding of illness into workable clinical practice.
