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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Culture and Panic Disorder examines panic disorder across cultures, and throughout history, with contributions from leading scholars in anthropology, psychiatry, sociology, psychology, and the history of science.
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"For those interested in the intersections between culture and anxiety disorders this book is essential reading. . . . [T]his book is seamlessly transdisciplinary in its quest to understand the ontological experiences of panic by persons within different contexts and histories"—M. Cameron Hay, Ethos
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ISBN
9780804761086
Publisert
2009-03-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Stanford University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Biographical note

Devon E. Hinton is a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist, and is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Byron J. Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.