Article ID: CBB662517691

Introduction: Pow Meng Yap and the culture-bound syndromes (2018)

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PM Yap’s most significant intellectual achievement was his development of the concept of the culture-bound syndrome, which synthesized years of research into transcultural psychiatry, and situated this work within this field by drawing on elaborated nosological schema that challenged some of the ethnocentric assumptions made by previous psychiatrists who had tried to understand mental illnesses that presented in non-western cultures. This introduction to Yap’s 1951 paper emphasizes that Yap needs to be understood as working within the western tradition of transcultural psychiatry, and argues that his English training and his continual engagement with western psychiatric and philosophical frameworks is the best way to conceive of his contributions to this field. Yap’s paper, republished below as the Classic Text, was his first foray into comparative transcultural psychiatry.

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Authors & Contributors
Schioldann, Johan
Berrios, German E.
Jacobsen, Thune
Andresen, Christopher Schroeder
Andrews, Jonathan
Parnas, Josef
Concepts
Primary literature (historical sources)
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Translations
Nosology; classification of diseases
History of medicine, as a discipline
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
Ancient
Places
Scotland
France
London (England)
North America
Japan
Europe
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