Culture and mental health: Examples of culture-related syndromes

Pages: 118-122
Reetinder Kaur (UGC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh)

Culture-related syndromes are mental conditions or psychiatric syndromes whose occurrence or manifestation are closely related to cultural factors and thus, warrant understanding and management from a cultural perspective. The present paper provides a comprehensive list of various culture-related syndromes and also attempts to broadly classify them. The various socio-cultural factors that explain these syndromes are also discussed.