Culture and schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.

摘要: Reaction patterns labelled psychopathologic are believed to be universal, indicating their biologic roots. All over the world there people who express delusions or report hallucinations. Yet, prevalence and nature of psychopathology also varies, sometimes greatly so, from one culture another. Differences across cultures underline impact cultural processes on mental illness. Cross-cultural psychiatry aspires investigate both these dimensions, worldwide equivalence culturally determined variability. Psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia extract an enormous price in terms personal, social, economic costs, world. Research decades has been able establish a disease brain, with multiple clinical manifestations. These manifestations combine various ways create considerable diversity among those afflicted. Both its strong genetic-biologic component differing presentations, make it ideally suited for study interactions between cultural, psychosocial, influences. This article attempts present brief overview aspects acute psychoses. The major emphasis is facets epidemiology, etiology, phenomenology, course outcome disorders. main, somewhat inevitable focus, distinction Western (developed) non-Western (developing) cultures. Although this may not always ideal comparison, most research findings schizophrenia, seemed have relied distinction. Therefore, useful starting point process understanding cross-cultural complexities