HPS 0612 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Dhat Syndrome, Afro-Caribbean, Psychosis
19 Dec 2018
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Week 15- cross-cultural psychiatry- thursday: potential effects. Pathogenicity-culture contributes to stress caused by illness. Pathoselectivity-culture contributes to individual"s reaction or means of coping. Pathoplasticity-culture contributes to symptom presentation (e. g. delusion contents) Pathofacilitative effect-culture can influence prevalence of condition. Pathoreactivity-culture impacts how individuals are perceived (individuals may respond in kind: some illustrations. Running amok involves: a man (typically, undirected violence in response to perceived indignity, sought to regain honor in being killed. Pathoselectivity line of response may not have been selected in another setting. In another cultural context, such fluid loss may not cause serious concern: a variety of factors seem to influence the prevalence of conditions like schizophrenia. Those growing up in urban settings seem more prone than rural areas. Those subject to social stress do too. Migrants and refugees manifest psychoses at more than twice the rate of non- migrants. Some illustrations: afro-caribbean and sub-saharan african migrants face especially steep risks. Face especially harsh social stressors in new country.
