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Four Culture-Bound Psychiatric Syndromes in India

Salman Akhtar, MD, FAPA

Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 1015 Chestnut Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA

This paper describes four culture-bound psychiatric syndromes seen in India. It highlights their phenomenology and briefly comments upon the socio-cultural cor relates of such symptom constellations.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 34, No. 1, 70-74 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/002076408803400109
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