PSYC 3280 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Evolution, Variance, Primate
20 Nov 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
If you had lived in japan for the last five years, you would know by now that your kokoro is at risk of coming down with a cold. Your kokoro is your soul, and the notion that it can catch cold (kokoro no kaze) was introduced to japan by the pharmaceutical industry to explain mild depression to a country that almost never discussed it. Talking about depression in japanese has always been a fundamentally different undertaking than talking about it in english. In our language, the word for depression is remarkably versatile. But in japanese, the word for depression (utsubyo) traditionally referred only to major or manic depressive disorders and was seldom heard outside psychiatric circles. To talk about feelings, people relied on the word ki or ""vital energy. "" In japan, the coining of kokoro no kaze marked a sea change in people"s thinking about depression. That transformation was triggered by the pharmaceutical industry"s other contribution to.
