Abstract:Understanding the cultural backgrounds of mental health and illness, in relation to language, religion and spirituality, family structures, life-cycle stages, ceremonial rituals, and customs, along with moral and legal systems, is essential in the field of cultural psychiatry [1]. There have been many important discoveries addressing the association between culture and classification, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric disorders [2].
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