Synthesis of Psychiatric Practice - East and West meet
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Definition of culture is difficult. Nevertheless, culture controls our lives (Pedersen & Ivey, 1993). Cross-cultural psychiatry classically deals with the interaction between culture and the experience and expression of psychopathology. It discusses the role of culture in the course and outcome of psychiatric disorders. The concepts of culture-bound and culture-free syndromes are common knowledge now. Cross-cultural themes also cover explanatory models of illness and traditional models of treatment followed in different cultures.
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