[Follow-up of a "culture-bound psychosis"].
Today it is uncontested that some psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia occur transculturally despite their culture-dependent symptomatical variations. In the following text we discuss the case of a Chinese patient emigrated to Switzerland. Different culture-dependent appreciation of facts and therapeutic approaches by her family and by the treatment team influenced the course of the psychotic disorder.
Savaskan
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Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik, Basel.
Mahrer
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D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D013557:Switzerland; D014744:Vietnam / Q000208:ethnology