ANTH 1002 Study Guide - Final Guide: Harry West, Frelimo, Attachment Disorder
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Discussion 12/7/2012 psychiatric diagnosis you want to refer to grinker and murphy"s reading; you will want to explain how the diagnosis are not an absolute thing - they are culturally bounded and are also affected by socio-economic factors. A good example is that autism, in korea, is diagnosed as. Rad - reactive attachment disorder - because autism brings stigma to the entire family, whereas. Aechak changae (murphy"s article), which is the eskimo word for schizophrenia, is a good pretext to explain the relativism of psychiatric diagnosis, in the sense that for the eskimos, schizophrenia is not necessarily bad. It is understood as something wrong or different with the spirit of the person, but doesn"t mean that the person should be isolated or treated - at least not in the same way we, westerners think. Relative category that changes in di erent cultural context. It"s just that something is di erent about the spirit or mind of the person.
