A culturally patterned depression in a mother after loss of a child.
The phenomenology of clinical psychiatric syndromes is conditioned by the cultural ambience of the patient. This paper describes a reactive depression in an Amerindian woman (Trio group) of Surinam, which followed the form, onset, and outcome prescribed by her tribal tradition.
D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002100:Cachexia / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D013483:Superstitions; D013532:Suriname