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The term culture-bound syndrome denotes recurrent, locality-specific patterns of aberrant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category. Many of these patterns are indigenously considered to be illnesses, or at least afflictions, and most have local names.
A culture-specific syndrome is characterized by: 1  categorization as a disease in the culture (i.e., not a voluntary behaviour or false claim); 2  widespread familiarity in the culture; 3  complete lack of familiarity of the condition to people in other cultures;