PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Psychopathology, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa
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Human biology is highly similar everywhere, yet psychological disorders present themselves in a variety of strikingly different ways around the world. Culture in implicated in the expression and experience of psychopathology. The criteria for what constitutes mental health and what constitutes problematic abnormalities will vary significantly across cultures. What would happen if one tried to study dhat syndrome in north. The distinction b/n universal categories of mental illness and culture- bound syndromes is not always straightforward, b/c the symptoms of some disorders might also vary across cultures, even tho the underlying causes of the problems are the same. Def: those that appear to be greatly influenced cultural factors, and hence occur far less frequently, or are manifested in highly divergent ways, in other cultures: examples: hikkomori, dhat. Also largely confined to modern cultures: mixed evidence: fewer incidents of anorexia in china than in the.
