Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome
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Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome
BACKGROUND "Fright" is an English-speaking Caribbean idiom for an illness, or ethnomedical syndrome, of persistent distress. A parallel ethnopsychiatric idiom exists in the French Antilles as sésisma. Fright is distinct from susto among Hispanics, though both develop in the wake of traumatic events. West Indian ethnophysiology (ethnoanatomy) theorizes that an overload of stressful emotions (fea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1746-4269
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-6-9