Social:Cultural bereavement

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Short description: Grief for loss of culture

Cultural bereavement is the experience of grief over feeling bereaved of one's perceived culture or cultural identity. The phenomenon can include the loss of societal structures or native language, among other things. It is a common feature of human migration. Authors for World Psychiatry state that it "can be viewed as a healthy reaction and a natural consequence of migration; however, if the symptoms cause significant distress or impairment and last for a specified period of time, psychiatric intervention may be warranted".[1][2][3][4]

See also

  • Cultural assimilation
  • Cultural genocide
  • Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement
  • Refugee health
  • Hiraeth

References

  1. "Migration, cultural bereavement and cultural identity". World Psychiatry 4 (1): 18–24. February 2005. PMID 16633496. 
  2. Eisenbruch, M. (1990). "The cultural bereavement interview: A new clinical research approach for refugees". The Psychiatric Clinics of North America 13 (4): 715–735. doi:10.1016/S0193-953X(18)30345-9. PMID 2281015. 
  3. Eisenbruch, M. (1991). "From post-traumatic stress disorder to cultural bereavement: Diagnosis of Southeast Asian refugees". Social Science & Medicine 33 (6): 673–680. doi:10.1016/0277-9536(91)90021-4. PMID 1957187. 
  4. Eisenbruch, M. (1992). "Toward a culturally sensitive DSM: Cultural bereavement in Cambodian refugees and the traditional healer as taxonomist". The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 180 (1): 8–10. doi:10.1097/00005053-199201000-00004. PMID 1538212.