Title 00 AbPsy - Culture Bound Syndromes.pdf ✅

PLIBOKTO ● Dissociative episode and prolonged extreme excitement ● Followed by seizures and coma ● Also called arctic hysteria ● Arctic KUFUNGISISA ● Disorder of Distress / thinking too much ● Cause of conditions akin to anxiety and depression ● Zimbabwe LATAH ● Exaggerated startle response experiencing trance-like dissociation ● Also exhibits echolalia and echopraxia ● Other names include Imu, Mali-Mali, Jumping Frenchmen Of Maine ● Southeast Asia, Japan JIKOSHU-KYOFU ● Olfactory reference syndrome (DSM-5) ● Preoccupation with a false belief that one emits a foul or offensive body odor KHYAL CAP ● Wind Attacks ● Panic attacks due to wind-like substance rising up in the body ● Cambodia SUSTO ● Fright Disorder ● Soul leaving the body in response to frightening experience ● Latin America ATAQUE DE NERVOIS ● Anxiety-related ● Panic Attack with manifestations of shouting uncontrollably and bursting into tears ● Hispanic American KYOL GOEU ● Wind overload ● Panic attack ● Too much wind or gas in the body, which may cause blood vessels to burst ● Devon Hinton PA-LENG ● Frigophobia ● Irrational fear of becoming too cold ● China ZOU HUO RU MO ● Qigong psychotic reaction ● Undesirable somatic or psychological symptoms (Dissociation and paranoia) experienced during or after qigong SINBYEONG ● Anxiety and somatic complaints ● Possession by ancestral spirits ● Linked to the Korean shamanic tradition ● Also called spirit sickness ● Korea TAIJIN KYOFUSHO ● Disorder of Fear / Fear of offending others ● Anxiety of extreme self-consciousness regarding appearance to avoid offending others ● Japan UFUFUNYANE ● Attributed to the effects of magical potions (given by rejected lovers), demons, or spiritual possession ● Symptoms include sobbing, paralysis, temporary blindness, trance-like states, loss of consciousness and nightmares with sexual themes ● Africa AMAFUFUNYANA ● Involves a person’s stomach speaking a language that the person doesn’t understand ● Stomach also delivers threats and dishes out orders to the victim ● Other symptoms include fatigue, nightmares, sleep difficulties, and agitation ● Zulus and the Xhosas of South Africa HIKIKOMORI ● Extreme social isolation ● When the youth withdraws from everyone and locks themselves up in their home for months ● Japan 2
WENDIGO PSYCHOSIS ● Insatiable craving for human flesh, even when other food is available ● Individuals develop an obsession with becoming a wendigo ● This obsession may range from a fear to a delusional belief, and can be associated with suicidal and homicidal thoughts ● Native Americans ZĀR ● Spirit possession ● Some develop long term relationship with possessor ● Northern Africa and Middle East REFERENCES American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425787 World Health Organization (2021). International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems (11th ed.). https://icd.who.int/ 3