Reflections on the Idioms of distress concept

22/11/2007 - 10:00

22 November 2007

Lecture by Prof. Thomas Wenzel
Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Event within the context of the Cleveringa Programme 2007

"Idioms of Distress" has become a new common paradigm in transcultural medicine to characterise reactions that are used to describe stress or trauma related phenomena in a culture by avoiding medicalisation of terms. The concept at least partly has replaced the earlier model of "culture bound" syndromes, though the concepts are only partly overlapping in their focus and general approach.

The lecture is intended to explore the concept of "Idioms of Distress" in the context of different cultures and in its relationship to the development of structured research strategies through a group interaction and comparison of original sources. Models developed for the World Psychiatric Association Section will be discussed as part of the meeting.

Programme

Chair: Prof. B.J. ter Haar (Leiden University)

10.00 - 11.00 hrs         Lecture by Prof. Thomas Wenzel

11.00 - 12.00 hrs         Discussion Prof. Thomas Wenzel, Prof. Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University, USA) and Prof. Dr. Zhu Li Jing (Bejing University and Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria)

Venue
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
Room 521, Nonnensteeg 1-3, Leiden

Information and Registration
Martina van den Haak
International Institute for Asian Studies
T +31 71 527 2227
m.van.den.haak@let.leidenuniv.nl