Four Culture-Bound Psychiatric Syndromes in India

Salman Akhtar
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Salman Akhtar: Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 1015 Chestnut Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1988, vol. 34, issue 1, 70-74

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.

Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1177/002076408803400109

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