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Hi-Wa itck A culture bound syndrome usually associated with Mohave American Indians. The symptoms include but are not limited to insomnia, depression and loss of appetite. This disorder is sometimes attributed to the separation from a loved on and in some more extreme cases, suicide may occur. (Glossary of culutre bound syndromes http://homepage.mac.com/mccajor/cbs_glos.html)





1.[Glossary of culutre bound syndromes http://homepage.mac.com/mccajor/cbs_glos.html] 2.Primitive Psychiatry. I. a Note on Method. IIHiwa:itck: George Devereux. Bull. of the Inst. of History of Med., VIII, 1940, pp. 1194–1213 3. [1] 4. Culture-bound psychotic disorders, possession states, emergency cross-cultural current modern psychiatric assessment, and the future of current modern cultural psychiatry: a global perspective

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