Cultural models and somatic syndromes

LJ Kirmayer, N Sartorius - Psychosomatic medicine, 2007 - journals.lww.com
… to psychiatric nosology, including culture-specific symptoms and … but rather metaphorical
descriptors or everyday terms, … Professional diagnostic practices are important elements in this …

Affective disorders in cultural context

LJ Kirmayer, D Groleau - Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2001 - Elsevier
… cross-cultural epidemiology of affective disorders. Recent … ability to assess culturally distinctive
elements, nevertheless … based on metaphorical constructs with both universal and culture-…

The role of metaphor in culture, consciousness, and medicine: A preliminary inquiry into the metaphors of depression in Chinese and Western medical and common …

S Pritzker - Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, 2003 - Elsevier
… to diminish the physical components of ‘ mental disorders,’ and … -linguistic heritage that
emphasized physical symptoms as … the metaphorical implications of chaos theory to psychology

Culture and somatization: clinical, epidemiological, and ethnographic perspectives

LJ Kirmayer, A Young - Psychosomatic medicine, 1998 - journals.lww.com
… a family of psychiatric disorders (the somatoform disorders in … in which somatic symptoms
provide metaphors for experience. … This is illustrated by data from the ethnographic component

The cultural adaptation of step-by-step: An intervention to address depression among Chinese young adults

HF Sit, R Ling, AIF Lam, W Chen, CA Latkin… - … in psychiatry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… Eight elements of the intervention were chosen as the targets of cultural adaptation (eg,
language, metaphors, … digital mental health interventions to reduce symptoms of common mental …

Cultural variations in the clinical presentation of depression and anxiety: implications for diagnosis and treatment

LJ Kirmayer - Journal of clinical psychiatry, 2001 - psychiatrist.com
… The culturally distinctive elements of the clinical presentation of … reflect culture-specific
symptoms or syndromes, cultural idioms … metaphor: a case of frame conflict in our language about …

Cultural adaptation of treatments: A resource for considering culture in evidence-based practice.

G Bernal, MI Jiménez-Chafey… - … Psychology …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
… For example, in terms of language and metaphors, the … of elements that are considered to
be cultural adaptations in … psychological disorders and metabolic diseases, health psychology, …

[HTML][HTML] Cultural adaptation of minimally guided interventions for common mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MH Shehadeh, E Heim, N Chowdhary… - … mental health, 2016 - mental.jmir.org
… the search: four on e-mental health and four on … cultural adaptation varied across the studies,
with language translation and use of metaphors being the most frequently applied elements

Embodied metaphors: Nerves as lived experience

SM Low - … and experience: The existential ground of culture and …, 1994 - books.google.com
… -bound syndrome-suggesting that the metaphoric power of … clinics and 152 from psychiatric
and psychosomatic clinics. … and suffering, that retains elements of more traditional indigenous …

Cultural psychiatry: Theoretical, clinical, and research issues

R Lewis-Fernandez, A Kleinman - Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1995 - Elsevier
… be understood as culturally embodied metaphors that have … Research on espiritismo thus
clarifies key cultural elements … mainstream psychiatrists for culturally defined syndromes and …