情绪体验和表达的文化差异

The Cultural Differences of Emotional Experience and Expression

文化对精神疾病的情绪体验和症状呈现有着重要的影响。文化不仅制约着情感的"表现规则"和身体的实践,更规范了社会能否接受的普遍情感表达模式。患者在求医问药中更倾向于体验和呈现心理的还是躯体的症状,不仅是患者文化背景的体现,而且也是患者对其自身所处医疗结构和医疗系统的认识,更是其在大众传播媒介和日常生活中所使用的诊断类别及疾病概念的反映。因此,从事精神疾病相关工作的人士更应重视不同文化之间的差异,发掘不同的文化资源以弥补传统精神病治疗的不足。

Culture has an important impact on the emotional experience and symptoms expression of mental illness. Culture not only restricts the emotional ＂performance rules＂ and the practice of the body, but also regulate the universal emotional expression model which the community would accept. Patients are more likely to experience and show psychological or physical symptoms in the treatment, which is due to not only the embodiment of the patient＇s cultural background, but also the patient＇s own medical structure and medical system awareness, in the mass communication Media and daily life used in the diagnostic category and the concept of disease reflection. Therefore. people involved in mental illness-related work should pay more attention to the differences between cultures and explore different cultures resources to make up for the lack of traditional psychiatric treatment.