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Transcultural psychiatry in the Latin American sphere.


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Pages: 6 – 12

Abstract

Starting with the essential concepts of trasncultural psychiatric and its inter-relations through ethno psychiatry and folkloric psychiatry the autor undertakes the study of some of the most important psychiatric “cultural-bound syndromes” in Latin America, still mostly ignored by international clasifications of mental disorders (DSM-IV and CIE-10).