Four Culture-Bound Psychiatric Syndromes in India
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Social Psychiatry
- Vol. 34 (1) , 70-74
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002076408803400109
Abstract
This paper describes four culture-bound psychiatric syndromes seen in India. It highlights their phenomenology and briefly comments upon the socio-cultural cor relates of such symptom constellations.Keywords
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