Cultural variations in the clinical presentation of depression and anxiety: implications for diagnosis and treatment.

By Laurence J. Kirmayer. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2001

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Cultural Adaptation of Scalable Psychological Interventions: A New Conceptual Framework (2019, background): “There is a vast body of literature on the difference in symptom expression across cultures, e.g. with regard to emotional vs. somatic complaints (e.g., Kirmayer, 2001; Ma-Kellams, 2014; Ryder et al., 2008).”
Common mental health problems in immigrants and refugees: general approach in primary care (2011, background): “Patients with depression or anxiety sometimes focus on physical symptoms or use culture-specific bodily idioms to express distress.(111,112) Medically unexplained symptoms, particularly pain, fatigue, and gastrointestinal and genitourinary symptoms, are common in the community and in primary care.”
Challenges and Strategies in Cross-Cultural NLP (2022, background): “The expression and perception of emotion also varies across cultures, both in text (Kirmayer et al., 2001; Ryder et al., 2008) and in face-to-face communication (Hareli et al., 2015).”
Somatization vs. Psychologization of Emotional Distress: A Paradigmatic Example for Cultural Psychopathology (2002, background): “Indeed, it may even be reasonable to instead characterize Western 'psychologization' as a culture-bound variable explaining observed cross-cultural differences (Kirmayer, 2001).”