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Toward a Meaning-Centered Analysis of Popular Illness Categories: “Fright Illness” and “Heart Distress” in Iran

  • Good B
  • Good M
Springer Netherlands, (1982), 141-166
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-9220-3_5
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Abstract

… disorders are known psychiatric diseases in cultural garb. For example, anthropologists and psychiatrists have debated whether susto … attention (a fright, a biological lesion, a spirit, etc.). …

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Good, B. J., & Good, M.-J. D. (1982). Toward a Meaning-Centered Analysis of Popular Illness Categories: “Fright Illness” and “Heart Distress” in Iran. In Cultural Conceptions of Mental Health and Therapy (pp. 141–166). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9220-3_5

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