Effects of Culture on Recovery From Transient Psychosis

Effects of Culture on Recovery From Transient Psychosis

Why chronic psychoses with poor outcomes are associated with modern cultures. A lack of "spirits" to blame for the illness in modern cultures, and a failure to recognize dissociative reactions, results in a bias toward biomedical etiologic models for psychosis. Patients experiencing potent...

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Veröffentlicht in:Psychiatric Times 2006-12, Vol.23 (14), p.46
1. Verfasser: Castillo, Richard J
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Anthropology
Biological psychiatry
Brief psychotic disorder
Care and treatment
Civilization
Comparative analysis
Cross cultural studies
Cultural psychiatry
Culture
Mental disorders
Patient outcomes
Psychiatry
Psychological aspects
Psychosis
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Zusammenfassung:Why chronic psychoses with poor outcomes are associated with modern cultures. A lack of "spirits" to blame for the illness in modern cultures, and a failure to recognize dissociative reactions, results in a bias toward biomedical etiologic models for psychosis. Patients experiencing potentially transient psychogenic psychoses are defined as genetically flawed and incurable.
ISSN:0893-2905