The Concept of Mania in Traditional Andean Culture

Am J Psychiatry. 2019 May 1;176(5):338-340. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18060681.

Authors

Marucela Juana Uscamayta Ayvar¹, Rodolfo Sanchez Garrafa¹, Javier I Escobar¹, Gabriel A de Erausquin¹

Affiliation

¹ The Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Harlingen (Uscamayta Ayvar, de Erausquin); the Department of Anthropology, National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru (Sanchez Garrafa); and the Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. (Escobar).

No abstract available

Keywords: Mania; Minority Issues And Cross-Cultural Psychiatry; Psychopathology.

MeSH terms

Bipolar Disorder / ethnology*
Culture*
Ethnopsychology*
Humans
Indigenous Peoples
Peru
Psychotic Disorders / ethnology

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