Self harm – a culture-bound syndrome? Ghana and UK experience

Self-harm in the UK military.

BACKGROUND Self-harm in the UK military has variously been estimated at 1-5.6% compared with 4.9% in the general UK population. AIMS To establish the overall prevalence of self-harm within the UK military, to establish the association between deployment and self-harm and to identify sociodemographic and social factors associated with self-harm within the UK military. METHODS A cross-section...

Resignation Syndrome: Catatonia? Culture-Bound?

Resignation syndrome (RS) designates a long-standing disorder predominately affecting psychologically traumatized children and adolescents in the midst of a strenuous and lengthy migration process. Typically a depressive onset is followed by gradual withdrawal progressing via stupor into a state that prompts tube feeding and is characterized by failure to respond even to painful stimuli. The pa...

A case of "ifufunyane": a xhosa culture-bound syndrome.

Clinicians and patients frequently have a different understanding and interpretation of the nature of an illness. While many reasons for these discrepancies can be postulated, differences in sociocultural background often play an important role—especially in the field of psychiatry. At our tertiary psychiatric hospital in South Africa, where standard Western teachings are followed, clinicians a...

culture, identity, and language education: home culture attachment, social/cultural capital, demographic factors and self-identity changes among iranian efl teachers

: در تحقیقی که پیش روی دارید ابتدا سعی شده است که نقش میزان بهره مندی مدرسان زبان انگلیسی از سرمایه های فرهنگی و اجتماعی در چارچوب نظریه بوردیو(1986) بر میزان وابستگی آن ها به فرهنگ خودی بررسی شود. لذا دو پرسشنامه به طورهمزمان بین 342 مدرس زبان انگلیسی در بیش از 25 موسسه ی خصوصی زبان انگلیسی در سطح شهر مشهد توزیع شد. رابطه ی بین میزان دسترسی به سرمایه فرهنگی و اجتماعی و وابستگی به فرهنگ خودی از...

Depression as a culture-bound syndrome: implications for primary care.