HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fibromyalgia, Masturbation, Sexual Dysfunction
20 Apr 2016
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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. Hallucinations among first nations communities vs. non-indigenous. Expression of illnesses done in a culturally-accepted way. Panic attacks (aas burning skin; caribbean trembling; eas dizziness; arab fear of dying; Some theorize less chance of as and narcissistic pd in collectivist cultures. Depression more common in west, mania in developing world. Etiological & treatment models (e. g. medical v supernatural) Beyond care issues of stigma, conceptualization of experience. Recognized only within a specific culture or society. Localized, folk, diagnostic categories that frame coherent meanings for certain repetitive, patterned, and troubling sets of experiences and observations . Commonly known within a culture and unknown in outside cultures.
