ChapterSouth Asian region Patel, V., Sumathipala, A., Khan, M.M., Thapa, S.B., & Rahman, O. 2007. Bhui, K., & Bhugra, D. (Eds.), Culture and mental health: A comprehensive textbook (pp. 212-225). Hodder Arnold. ISBN: 978-0-340-81046-0 doi: Excerpt This chapter will mainly focus on mental health in India,Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Within the scope of…
ChapterCulture-bound syndromes: a re-evaluation Bhugra, D., Sumathipala, A., & Siribaddana, S. 2007. D. Bhugra & K. Bhui (Eds.), Textbook of cultural psychiatry (pp. 141-156). Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-511-54360-9 doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511543609.013 Summary Editors’ Introduction For over a century, cultures in traditional societies were seen as providing exotic and esoteric clinical conditions, which were not ‘seen’…