Culture-bound syndromes, idioms of distress, and cultural concepts of distress: New directions for an old concept in psychological anthropology

This issue of Transcultural Psychiatry showcases some recent work on idioms of distress – the latest in a long line of anthropological research concerned with cross-cultural concepts and experiences of distress.1 Mark Nichter’s (1981) seminal paper introducing idioms of distress has become a cynosur...

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Published in:	Transcultural psychiatry Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 589 - 598
Main Authors:	Kaiser, Bonnie N., Jo Weaver, Lesley
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London, England SAGE Publications 01.08.2019
Subjects:	Ethnopsychology Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice - ethnology Humans Language Stress, Psychological
ISSN:	1363-4615, 1461-7471, 1461-7471
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