Culture and Psychopathology and Review

cultural considerations in clinical practice includes

• understanding influence of culture on expression of symptoms and what is considered to be a disorder

• understand cultural identity of individuals

• aware of cultural explanations of individual experiences

hysteria

female condition/gendered tool to pathologise and control non-conformity

drapetomania

now-discredited diagnosis from 1851 to pathologise the desire of enslaved Africans to escape captivity = justify slavery due to framing attempts as irrational diseased behaviour

stonewall riots

A series of protests in 1969 by the LGBTQ+ community against police raids at the Stonewall Inn in New York City - considered a catalyst for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.

culturally-bound syndromes

cluster or group of co-occurring, relatively invariant symptoms found in a specific cultural group, community or context

Power Threat Meaning framework

alt to DSM and HiTOP. Doesn’t treat psychopathology as medical condition but as patterned response to social, cultural and psychological factors. emphasises role of power, threat and meaning people make of their psycho distress