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The Nature of Koro: A Culture-Bound Disorder
Title: The Nature of Koro: A Culture-Bound Disorder
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The Nature of Koro: A Culture-Bound Disorder
Running Head: KORO
The Nature of Koro: A Culture-Bound Disorder
Culture-bound syndromes (CBSs) comprise a diverse set of illness phenomena that the DSM-IV defines as
recurrent, locality-specific patterns of aberrant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category. Many of these patterns of behavior are indigenously considered to be ‘illnesses’, or at least afflictions, and most have local names.
Koro is one such culture-specific psychiatric disorder …showed first 75 words of 1071 total…
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