HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Fibromyalgia, Mania, Arthur Kleinman
8 Dec 2016
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Culture shapes what is and what isn"t mental illness. Some say there"s too much culture involved in shaping our behaviours and views that it"d be hard or irrelevant to try to apply them to a new culture. Many criticize models of mental illness (especially the medical model) because they fail to include culture within their list of variables. A person"s symptoms are partially shaped by their behaviour and experience themselves shaped by culture. Problematically, dsm criteria designed by a very particular subset of the population. When we try to globalize mental illness we"re taking these ideals created by white, upper middle class men and applying them to other different cultures. Defines if behaviour is considered deviant: hallucinations among first nations communities vs. non-indigenous, possession versus psychosis in latin america. Content: fbi v kgb, fat phobia (or not) and eating disorders.
