What Is Cultural Psychiatry?

Cultural psychiatry is part of social psychiatry. Study the relationship between mental illness and culture. It has been developed to study the influence of different cultures on psychiatry. It is called cross-cultural psychiatry or comparative culture psychiatry. It mainly studies the incidence, etiology, pathogenesis, disease differences, clinical characteristics, treatment and prevention of psychiatry in different cultural backgrounds. Krepelin noted in 1904 that in some primitive tribes, the manifestation of mental symptoms was different from that of a general civilized society. ^[1]