Culture and Mental Illness (Intro Psych Tutorial

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In this video I discuss the relationship between culture and mental illness and how culture may influence the prevalence, expression, or understanding of psychological disorders. While the DSM-IV described "culture-bound syndromes" such as koro (penile retraction syndrome), the DSM-5 has replaced this with description of cultural syndromes, cultural idioms of distress, and cultural explanations of distress or perceived causes. Next I discuss several cultural syndromes (dhat or semen-loss anxiety, ataque de nervios, and shenjing shuairuo) and whether these might be manifestations of underlying disorders like depression or anxiety. Lastly I consider the implications of how we think about the cultural divisions between disorders when it comes to treatment focused on more universal approaches (such as prescription of antidepressant medication) rather than culturally-specific treatments.

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