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Culture and the Definition of Disorder
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What counts as disordered behavior depends partly on cultural norms about acceptable and expected conduct.
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Experiences understood as spiritual in one community are assessed as symptoms in another.
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Cultural variation does not make diagnosis arbitrary. It requires the diagnostic threshold to be applied in context.