The meaning of pain: A cultural formulation of a Syrian woman in Sweden
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Transcultural Centre, Stockholm County Council |
| ANO | 2012 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Transcultural Psychiatry |
| ISSN | 1363-4615 |
| E-ISSN | 1461-7471 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363461511427781 |
| CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
Ethnography provides a method for psychiatric assessment to obtain an insight into the patient's culture, context, and life situation. The Outline for a Cultural Formulation (CF) is an ethnography-based, idiographic formulation intended to complement the multiaxial assessment in DSM-IV. Its contribution to routine clinical praxis will be discussed with reference to a case of a Syrian-born woman in Sweden. Using the CF in the clinical diagnostic process shifted understanding of the patient's suffering from a mainly somatic frame of reference to an emphasis on emotional and social aspects. The usefulness of ethnography in clinical psychiatric diagnostic practice is discussed.