Acculturation and Changing Concepts of Mental Disorder: Brazilians in the USA
In: Transcultural psychiatry, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 50-61
ISSN: 1461-7471
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In: Transcultural psychiatry, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 50-61
ISSN: 1461-7471
In: Transcultural psychiatry, Band 38, Heft 3, S. 317-332
ISSN: 1461-7471
Lay concepts of 'mental disorder' were investigated in three countries (U.S.A., Romania and Brazil). Participants judged whether a sample of conditions – some falling inside and some outside the borders defined by DSM-IV – were mental disorders, and rated them on features invoked in professional understandings of 'mental disorder.' The concept of mental disorder was considerably more inclusive and convergent with the DSM-IV in the American sample than in the Brazilian sample, and disorder judgments showed only moderate agreement across cultures. Several features of the concept were culturally distinctive, amounting to a more 'internalist' or intrapsychic understanding in the American sample.