QU 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Panic Attack, Mental Disorder, Psychosis

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: QU Seminars
• Course: QU 400
• Professor: Sigrid Nystrom

Document Summary

How culture shapes your mind by linda rodriguez mcrobbie acknowledges how different cultures affect different disorders. The reading begins with the story of a patient ode. Ori who was first seen by a grad student. The grad student would have diagnosed ode with schizophrenia, but after consulting with her advisor, she was informed that he was only having a panic attack. This small anecdote enforces the idea that culture shapes who we are, so it follows that it would also shape our manifestations of stress, mental disorder, emotion (mcrobbie, To the student, ode"s symptoms were synonymous with schizophrenia, but her advisor knew ode more personally and was able to correctly diagnose his symptoms. This can lead to complications when psychology and psychiatry aim to standardize the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Clinicians are beginning to realize that these standardized measures are not what is best for anyone.