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This document discusses anorexia nervosa as a potential culture-bound syndrome. It begins by outlining two approaches to studying psychopathology cross-culturally: the "old transcultural psychiatry" which focuses on fitting disorders into Western diagnostic systems, and the "new cross-cultural psychiatry" which examines categories from within cultures. It then presents the definition of a culture-bound syndrome proposed by Cassidy and Ritenbaugh, which defines them as disorders that can only be understood w
- Author
- Erro Surya
- Language
- EN