Explain what culture-bound syndromes are and describe the features of Koro and Dhat syndromes.



culture-bound syndromes are and describe the features of Koro and Dhat syndromes.

Culture-bound syndromes have been discussed under a variety of names and are defined as 'episodic and dramatic reactions specific to a particular community - locally defined as discrete patterns of behaviour' (Littlewood & Lipsedge, 1985). However, Hughes (1996) proposed that these form a unique and distinctive class of generic phenomena, and that such syndromes exist among and afflict only the 'others' - people who by some criterion are outside the 'mainstream' population (however defined). These syndromes ...