Int J Soc Psychiatry. 1988 Spring;34(1):70-4.

Four culture-bound psychiatric syndromes in India.

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Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107.

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This paper describes four culture-bound psychiatric syndromes seen in India. It highlights their phenomenology and briefly comments upon the socio-cultural correlates of such symptom constellations.

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