Overview
- Provides the first comprehensive overview of research on the clinical and cultural features of koro
- Critically examines the concept of culture-bound disorder and how it has changed over the course of cultural psychiatry
- Examines individual and epidemic occurrence drawing on clinical and social analysis
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Current Status
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Front Matter
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Literature Review
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Cultural psychiatry
- Transcultural Psychiatry
- Cross-cultural psychiatry
- Koro
- Sexual Neurosis
- Cultural-bound Syndrome
- culture-bound illness
- Psychiatric epidemic
- Genital Retraction Disorder
- Dysmorphic penis image perception
- Koro-like symptom
- Ethnomedicine
- nosology of Koro
- hysteria epidemic
- clinical social work
- psycho-sexual disorder
About this book
The book begins by outlining the definition, etymology of the term, and clinical features of koro as a culture-bound syndrome, and contextualizes the concept with reference to its historical origins and local experience in Southeast Asia, and its subsequent widespread occurrence in South Asia. It also critically examines the concept of culture-bound disorder and the development of the terminology, such as cultural concepts of distress, which is the term thatis currently used in the DSM-5. Subsequent chapters elaborate the cultural context of koro in Chinese and South Asian cultures, including cultural symbolic analysis of associations with animals (fox and turtle) and phallic imagery based on troubling self-perceived aspects of body image that is central to the concept. The second section of the book offers a comprehensive, global literature review, before addressing the current status and relevance of koro, clinically relevant questions of risk assessment and forensic issues, and research methodology.
This landmark work will provide a unique resource for clinicians and researchers working in cultural psychiatry, cultural psychology, anthropology, medical sociology, social work and psychosexual medicine.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
He was awarded twice the highest academic award (Marfatia Award) for his research by the Indian Psychiatric Society. He devoted a large part of his long academic career to mental health service development, and for this extraordinary service, he was awarded the prestigious Dr. B.C.Roy National Award by the Medical Council of India and Award by the World Federation of Mental Health. He is an executive member of the Transcultural Psychiatry groupof Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Koro
Book Subtitle: Clinical and Historical Developments of the Culturally Defined Genital Retraction Disorder
Authors: Arabinda Narayan Chowdhury
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87962-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87961-7Published: 22 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87964-8Published: 23 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87962-4Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 518
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology, Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Medical Anthropology, Urology, Medical Sociology