Culture-Bound or Construct-Bound? The Syndromes and DSM-III.- Sorting the Culture-Bound Syndromes.- I: Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric Interest in which some Evidence Supports the Hypothesis of a Neurophysiological Shaping Factor.- A. The Startle Matching Taxon.- The Resolution of the Latah Paradox.- Paradox Lost: The Latah Problem Revisited.- Latah II — Problems with a Purely Symbolic Interpretation: A Reply to Michael G. Kenny.- Shamans and Imu: Among Two Ainu Groups — Toward a Cross-Cultural Model of Interpretation.- Commentary.- B. The Sleep Paralysis Taxon.- Uqamairineq and Uqumanigianiq: Eskimo Sleep Paralysis.- The Old Hag Phenomenon as Sleep Paralysis: A Biocultural Interpretation.- Commentary.- II: Folk Illnesses of Psychiatric Interest in which a Neurophysiological Shaping Factor is only Suspected.- A. The Genital Retraction Taxon.- Koro — A Cultural Disease.- Koro in a Nigerian Male Patient: A Case Report.- The Koro Pattern of Depersonalization in an American Schizophrenic Patient.- Indigenous Koro, A Genital Retraction Syndrome of Insular Southeast Asia: A Critical Review.- Commentary.- B. The Sudden Mass Assault Taxon.- Ethno-Behaviorism and the Culture-Bound Syndromes: The Case of Amok.- Sudden Mass Assault with Grenade: An Epidemic Amok Form from Laos.- The Amok Syndrome in Papua and New Guinea.- Amok.- Commentary.- C. The Running Taxon.- Pibloktoq (Hysteria) Among the Polar Eskimo: An Ethnopsychiatric Study.- Grisi Siknis in Miskito Culture.- The Transformation of Arctic Hysteria.- Commentary.- III: Folk Illnesses Usually Listed as Culture-Bound Psychiatric Syndromes which should Probably No Longer be so Considered.- A. The Fright Illness Taxon.- The Folk Illness Called Susto.- Saladera — A Culture-Bound Misfortune Syndrome in the Peruvian Amazon.-Lanti, Illness by Fright Among Bisayan Filipinos.- Mogo Laya, A New Guinea Fright Illness.- Commentary.- B. The Cannibal Compulsion Taxon.- Windigo Psychosis: The Anatomy of an Emic-Etic Confusion.- Commentaries and Replies.- Commentary.- Append.- Glossary of ‘Culture-Bound’ or Folk Psychiatric Syndromes.- Charles C. Hughes.- List of Contributors.- to the Index.
`... admirable and essential book. It moves this vexing subject
(Culture-Bound Syndromes) to a more fruitful plane of
conceptualization and investigation and constitutes a vital
contribution to transcultural psychiatry and medical
anthropology.'
Social Science and Medicine.
`... the essential basis for any future work in cultural psychiatry
or, indeed, any attempt at a taxonomy of Western neurosis. it is
the `Book of the Year' for comparative psychiatristis.'
Psychological Medicine (1987)
`This is the first book to examine the concept of culturebound
syndromes in a comprehensive manner. It raises important questions
about the cultural shaping of all our psychiatric categories of
mental illness. This is a major contribution to our understanding
of diagnosis in psychiatry.'
Prof. Armando R. Favazza
`This book provides detailed descriptions and discussions of
several of the most important of these syndromes. It also provides
the best-to-date discussions of the difficulties of fitting the
culture-bound syndromes into present nosological categories. The
book has the notable advantage of the firm editorship of a
psychiatrist and an anthropologist, both of whom have full
familiarity with the other's field. The result is a brilliant
course between Scylla and Charybdis. With the help of this book and
with DSM-III as a culture-bound but innovative model, ICD-10 might
well attain truly inernational coverage; those concerned with
psychiatric disorders around the world could find that at last they
have a classification which approaches relevance to all of their
societies and all of their patients.'
R. Prince, M.D., Editor of the Transcultural Psychiatric Research
Review
`This important book develops approaches as to whether any specific
terms refers to a particular behaviour pattern, to local exegesis
or to variants to more universal patterns - and more importantly,
what the criteria are by which we can make such a decision. It is
essential reading for all mental health workers, psychiatristis,
psychologists and social workers, who are concerned with a
relationship between psychopathology and culture, and also for
social anthropologists concerned with the meanings which cultures
ascribe to the natural world.'
Roland Littlewood, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, The University of
Birmingham and The Institute of Social Anthropology, Oxford
University
`... provide the essential basis for any future work in cultural
psychiatry or, indeed, any attempt at a taxonomy of Western
neurosis. It is the `Book of the Year' for comparative
psychiatrists.'
Psychological Medicine, 17 (1987)
`This is an important contribution and should be worthwhile for
medical antrhopologists as well as students of psychiatry,
psychology, and culture in general.'
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 174:9 (1986)
`This important contribution to the study of the culturebound
syndromes serves to highlights not only areas of mutual interest to
researchers in various disciplines but also the several dilemmas
that make further advancement in the study of these syndromes
problematic.'
Roberta Hall, Oregon State University
`Simons and Hughes have produced a very worthwhile book on this
subject, by far the most extensive to date.'
American Anthropologist, 89 (1987)
`...highly recommended to the serious researcher or student in the
field.'
Contemporary Psychology
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