Culture and panic disorder
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Culture and panic disorder
Stanford University Press, c2009
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : panic disorder in cross-cultural and historical perspective / Byron J. Good and Devon E. Hinton
- Theoretical perspectives on the cross-cultural study of panic disorder / Laurence J. Kirmayer and Caminee Blake
- A medical anthropology of panic sensations : ten analytic perspectives / Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good
- The irritable heart syndrome in the American Civil War / Robert Kugelmann
- Twentieth-century theories of panic in the United States : from cardiac vulnerability to catastrophic cognitions / Devon E. Hinton and Susan D. Hinton
- Comparative phenomenology of 'Ataques de Nervios', panic attacks, and panic disorder / Roberto Lewis-Fernández ... [et al.]
- Dizziness and panic in China : organ and ontological disequilibrium / Lawrence Park and Devon E. Hinton
- Gendered panic in southern Thailand : 'lom' ("wind") illness and 'wuup' ("upsurge") illness / Pichet Udomratn and Devon E. Hinton
- 'Ihahamuka,' a Rwandan syndrome of response to the genocide : blocked flow, spirit assault, and shortness of breath / Athanase Hagengimana and Devon E. Hinton
- Panic illness in Tibetan refugees / Eric Jacobson
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Description
Psychiatric classifications created in one culture may not be as universal as we assume, and it is difficult to determine the validity of a classification even in the culture in which it was created. Culture and Panic Disorder explores how the psychiatric classification of panic disorder first emerged, how medical theories of this disorder have shifted through time, and whether or not panic disorder can actually be diagnosed across cultures.
In this breakthrough volume a distinguished group of medical and psychological anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and historians of science provide ethnographic insights as they investigate the presentation and generation of panic disorder in various cultures. The first available work with a focus on the historical and cross-cultural aspects of panic disorders, this book presents a fresh opportunity to reevaluate Western theories of panic that were formerly taken for granted.
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