Cultura o psicosis: ¿una conducta social que induce una psicopatología o una psicopatología que induce una conducta social? / Culture or Psychosis: A Social Behavior that Prompts a Psychopathology or a Psychopathology that Prompts a Social Behavior?
P. Pérez
March 5, 2013 DOI: 10.37467/gka-revmedica.v2.1317 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review |
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| Key findings | Argues that clinicians encountering patients whose cultural frameworks center on magical, mystical, or spiritual healing must assess these contexts in a scientifically informed way without interfering with the patients' cultural beliefs. Contends that the ICD-10 category F44.3 (Trance and Possession Disorder), added in 1999 for epidemiological and planning purposes, is insufficient to describe the complexity of behaviors and thought patterns associated with diverse cultural beliefs. |
Abstract
ABSTRACT The aim of this review is to illustrate through a case tried, the difficulties encountered while dealing with patients’ special cultures and beliefs, which require a culture assessment, given its special features. Also, this review aims at providing basic tools for understanding and analyzing the impact of the cultural environment. In the event that a health professional stands in front of cross culture context in his daily practice, one in which magical and spiritual elements dominate, he/she must have the ability to assess it in a scientifically, way but without interfering with the cultural belief of the individuals. The F44.3 The Trance and Possession Disorder (9) was included in the 1999 International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) of the World Health Organization for epidemiological and planning purposes. However, this inclusion is not sufficient to describe the complexity of the behaviors and thought patterns related to all different culture beliefs. RESUMEN El objetivo de esta revision es ilustrar, a traves de un caso clinico, las dificultades que se presentan en el abordaje de los pacientes con diferentes culturas y creencias que por sus caracteristicas especiales requieren de una evaluacion trans-cultural. Asimismo, tambien se pretende proporcionar herramientas basicas para su comprension y analisis ya que cuando un profesional de la salud encuentra en su consulta diaria un caso en el que predominan elementos magicos, misticos y sobrenaturales que buscan una estrategia de sanacion para el individuo y su grupo familia, este debe estar en la capacidad de abordarlo de una manera cientificamente acertada pero sin interferir con las creencias culturales de estos. El F44.3 Trastorno de trance y posesion se incluyo en la Decima Clasificacion Internacional de Enfermedades (CDI-10) de la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud de 1999(1) con fines epidemiologicos y de planeacion. Sin embargo, esta inclusion no es suficiente para describir la complejidad de las conductas y estructuras de pensamiento relacionadas con creencias culturales.