Atypical Psychopathologies and Culture Bound Syndromes

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Three hours lecture per week Examines behaviors which seem to be at the extreme edge of the human repertoire. Nevertheless, such behaviors have at different times and cultures been considered normal. Students in this course will examine such behaviors from different racial and ethnic groups with an open mind, while attempting to understand that so-called normal behaviors in Western culture could be construed as abnormal in other parts of the non-Western world.