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Friday, November 20, 2009
Culture and mental illness
"Psychological disorders, or at least our labels for them, differ across cultures. But are these and other non-Western conditions truly distinct from those in the U.S. and Europe?" Scientific American
One mental illness specific to Japan is a withdrawl syndrome when kids who are extremely stressed out by the pressure to perform in schools lock themselves in their rooms, refuse to see or to talk to anyone for months. This syndrome has a Japanese name but I forgot it.
My dad studies this.
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