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[Follow-up of a "culture-bound psychosis"]
1Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Basel.
Psychiatrische Praxis
|May 1, 1997
Abstract:
Today it is uncontested that some psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia occur transculturally despite their culture-dependent symptomatical variations. In the following text we discuss the case of a Chinese patient emigrated to Switzerland. Different culture-dependent appreciation of facts and therapeutic approaches by her family and by the treatment team influenced the course of the psychotic disorder.