title: Cross-cultural psychiatry and the DSM-IV.
abstract: This report attempts to provide a theoretical framework for exploring the intersection between current work in psychiatric nosology and cross-cultural psychiatry. Three positions at this intersection are constructed and contrasted--a clinical approach, an anthropological approach, and a synthetic clinical-anthropological approach. These positions are used to consider a number of cross-cultural issues in the forthcoming DSM-IV, including a background statement, a cross-cultural axis, diagnostic categories and criteria, and culture-bound syndromes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Stein
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013577:Syndrome