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Many psychiatric illnesses or symptoms are known to evolve in a sociocultural context. Culture may not only affect the labeling of certain illnesses or symptoms but also affect people’s belief on the occurrence of a certain illness or symptom according to their reaction pattern via modulation of sensitivity to a particular stressor as well as susceptibility to a particular organ [1]. Culture is closely related to the clinical history or the precipitants of a certain health problem. Accordingly, understanding the influence of culture on psychiatric disorders is critical to the biopsychosocial formulation and treatment planning for patients with such disorders.
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Min, S.K. (2013). Culture and Somatic Symptoms: Hwa-byung, a Culture-Related Anger Syndrome. In: Koh, K. (eds) Somatization and Psychosomatic Symptoms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7119-6_5
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