| 书目名称 | Koro | | 副标题 | Clinical and Histori | | 编辑 | Arabinda Narayan Chowdhury | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Provides the first comprehensive overview of research on the clinical and cultural features of koro.Critically examines the concept of culture-bound disorder and how it has changed over the course of | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book provides a definitive account of koro, a topic of long-standing interest in the field of cultural psychiatry in which the patient displays a fear of the genitals shrinking and retracting. Written by Professor A.N. Chowdhury, a leading expert in the field, it provides a comprehensive overview of the cultural, historical and clinical significance of the condition that includes both cutting-edge critique and an analysis of research and accounts from the previous 120 years published literature. .The book begins by outlining the definition, etymology of the term, and clinical features of koro as a culture-bound syndrome, and contextualizes the concept with reference to its historical origins and local experience in Southeast Asia, and its subsequent widespread occurrence in South Asia. It also critically examines the concept of culture-bound disorder and the development of the terminology, such as cultural concepts of distress, which is the term thatis currently used in the DSM-5. Subsequent chapters elaborate the cultural context of koro in Chinese and South Asian cultures, including cultural symbolic analysis of associations with animals (fox and turtle) and phallic imagery | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | Cultural psychiatry; Transcultural Psychiatry; Cross-cultural psychiatry; Koro; Sexual Neurosis; Cultural | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87962-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-87964-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-87962-4 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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