L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Libido, Bipolar Disorder, Arthur Kleinman
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Kirnmayer: cross cultural psychiatry, first formulated in 1970s and 1980s by arthur kleinman, respect cultureal difference in mental health treatment and avoid imposing. Western psychiatric categories as universal: psychiatry is western, culture bound , can"t go around the world and just drop these labels everywhere. Need richer cross cultural that would deal with things like susto: hypoactive sexual disorder: means in a brain disorder. Cross cultural would want to know what"s going on in her life. Reality of experiencing something like depression is part of the storied life of engaging with psychiatrist. Cancer doesn"t come about between relationship between you and the doctor. This is a medical treatment grounded in discourse or. Just by talking about it, affect disorder positively or negatively: discursive psychiatry =the construction of meaning, psychiatrist is treating a story! People come from cultural worlds but they"re a story. Each person has their own program of symptoms and story of living.
