Traditional concepts of mental disorder among Indian psychiatric patients: Preliminary report of work in progress

Weiss, Mitchell G.; Sharma, Susmita; Gaur, Rakesh; Sharma, J.S.; Desai, Amit; Doongaji, D. R.

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(86)90080-8

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“…In the present study, more than half of the patients had tried at least one type of NPF before they went to psychiatrists, which is consistent with the earlier research from India (Chadda, Agarwal, Singh, & Raheja, 2001;Weiss et al, 1986). Shi et al (Shi, Lu, & Zhu, 2000) also reported a similar finding based on the survey of psychiatric outpatients in Shanghai, China.…”

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“…Many times, due to a lack of awareness or the absence of easily accessible treatment facilities, particularly in developing countries, patients and care-takers may prefer to approach alternative service providers. Depending on the availability and accessibility, these resources may include traditional medicine practitioners, primary care physicians or other specialists rather than psychiatrists (Tang, 1998;Weiss et al, 1986).…”

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Help-seeking Behaviors of Chinese Patients with Schizophrenia Admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital

Tang

Sévigny

Mao³

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Adm Policy Ment Health

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A substantial proportion of psychiatric inpatients in China seek help from non-psychiatric facilities and/or folk healing methods. Feeling shameful or stigmatized, inaccessibility to and/or unavailability of psychiatric services are among the most common barriers to seeking psychiatric treatment. Patients who sought psychiatric help directly are likely to be female, with a chronic onset of illness, a mixed syndrome of positive and negative symptoms, or a better economic status.

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Mao³

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“…Explanatory-model studies have been applied to elaborate the cultural context and meaning of various mental disorders, including schizophrenia (Larsen, 2004;Niehaus et al, 2004), depression among elderly Koreans (Pang, 19981, other psychiatric conditions, and acquisition of a non-specific identity as a psychiatric patient (Sayre, 2000). With reference to cultural and historical context, studies have also considered how current experience and meaning of psychiatric disorders in India relates to classical humoral concepts and medical traditions of Ayurveda (Weiss et al, 1986). Lee's (1995) research on anorexia suggests that efforts to associate that condition with Western explanatory models may result in a category fallacy.…”

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Explanatory models in psychiatry

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2007

Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry

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EDITORS' I N T R O D U C T I O N IntroductionOver the past three decades the illness explanatory model framework has stimulated research in clinically applied medical anthropology, guided clinical training, sparked controversy in the health social sciences and guided developments in the field of cultural psychiatry. This formulation of explanatory models was conceived both to advance perspectivism in clinical medical practice and public health, and to show how ethnomedical study of sickness and medicine should contribute to cultural anthropology and social analysis. The appeal of the explanatory model framework for clinical training is based on the premise that it is important to examine relationships and consequences of interactions between patients' ideas about their health problems and those of clinicians and professionals who are responsible for their care. Although the clinical interests and applications of illness explanatory models extend to all aspects of medicine, it was mainly experience and interest in psychiatry andTextbook of Cultural Psychiatry, Dinesh Rhugra and Kamaldeep Bhui (eds.).

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“…Much of the commentary has been speculative (Rack, 1982;Ineichen, 1990). Authors have made suggestions about how mental illness might be viewed among different migrant groups in Britain, but these typically have not been based on extended interviews with subjects (Cochrane and Stopes Roe, 1980;but cf Currer, 1986;Krause, 1989;Weiss et al, 1986). Social anthropological studies of migration, settlement, community and family among South Asians in Britain have offered detailed accounts of patterns of daily life, including interpretations of the world as seen from the vantage point of South Asian women (Shaw, 1988;Jeffery, 1976, Ballard and Ballard, 1977, Ballard, 1973, Watson, 1977 -but these studies made little or no reference to mental health and illness, (but see Shaw 1988:4).…”

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Culture, relativism and the expression of mental distress: South Asian women in Britain

Fenton

Sadiq-Sangster

1996

Sociology Health & Illness

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Social anthropology and medical anthropology have presented a challenge to the belief that there are universal categories of mental illness. A relativist position would suggest that there are as many categories of mental health (or physical health) as there are languages and culture in which they are expressed.Intermediate arguments suggest that there may be common elements in ideas of mental illness but that cultural expression of syndromes may differ significantly, or that symptoms may cluster in different ways in different cultures. These arguments have been raised, as well as in cross national comparisons, in the context of minority groups (ethnic, cultural, language groups) in Britain. The research, reported here, on South Asian women in Bristol, shows that they have a clear conception of mental health and illness, a clear understanding of relationships between physical and mental health, and make important distinctions between types of mental ill-health. They describe mental distress in a culturally specific set of language terms and their accounts differ from English speakers in important ways. At the same time they describe a syndrome of mental distress which corresponds in a number of features to the category 'depression'.

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Traditional concepts of mental disorder among Indian psychiatric patients: Preliminary report of work in progress

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Help-seeking Behaviors of Chinese Patients with Schizophrenia Admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital

Help-seeking Behaviors of Chinese Patients with Schizophrenia Admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital

Explanatory models in psychiatry

Culture, relativism and the expression of mental distress: South Asian women in Britain

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