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- Title
Del latah a la esquizofrenia. Una revisión de las categorías psiquiátricas desde la antropología médica.
- Authors
Apud, Ismael Eduardo
- Abstract
Decades ago, the field of mental health included the category of culture-bound syndromes, related to those afflictions that, in contrast to psychiatric disorders, are restricted to certain cultures. The category has been questioned by medical anthropology, since it supposes a separation between the "real" biologic and universal disorders, and a glossary of leftover syndromes, supposedly shaped only by culture. The current article is a review of this debate using two main examples: a culture-bound syndrome called latah, and schizophrenia. Both examples are used to analyze two core tensions in medical anthropology and cultural psychiatry: the tension between nature and culture, and the tension between natural and interpretive explanations. It will be argued in favor of a complementarity between both kinds of explanations, as well as the importance of a critical and reflexive perspective of the psychiatric knowledge and practice, and the necessity of a better dialogue between medical anthropology, psychiatry and natural sciences.
- Subjects
MEDICAL anthropology; MENTAL illness; ETHNOLOGY; MENTAL health; NATURAL history; SUFFERING
- Publication
Quaderns de l'Institut Català d'Antropologia, 2019, Issue 35, p129
- ISSN
0211-5557
- Publication type
Article