I recommend exploring mental and psychiatric disorders in general and their relation to culture. I have provided some studies to look at. I hope that helps. All the best.
Osamah K.Abdulretha Alshoreefi I have a simple perception, and I need help so that the vision becomes clearer.Thank you for your interest, and your opinion Dr.
One should not keep the mind in disorderly manner as it may not offer us the right type of thinking with the expression .It is better when we decide to understand any topics of any culture or even if we desire to study politics,philosophy ,spiritual study or even the Science of palmistry & Astrology we should not keep our mind in disorderly manner so that we may certainly give the justice of our reading .
It is better to go back to previous studies to see the gab or relationship that you want to search in. It is always preferable for the relationship to be specific, rather than general, In addition that social issues are broad and there are many areas that need to be addressed
I think you should start with an idea, rather than looking randomly at possible connections. Which disorder are you interested in? Or which dimension of cultural difference? Or both? If you have a hunch that (for example) OCD is more common in religious groups that place a lot of emphasis on ritual purity, then search the literature to see what is already known. Or if you think schizophrenia might be less common in highly collectivistic societies, then follow that up. If you don't have any compelling argument for why there should be a cultural difference in a particular disorder, you should study something else that you do have hypotheses about.
Consider identifying one Very specific characteristic, behavior or result, then identify variables contributing to such, to further narrow and define your search. Good luck.
I suppose that you have access to one cultural community and that you expect to compare the incidence of a certain disorder between that community and the Western community in which DSM-5 defined and described that disorder. I would start from that, choosing a disorder which is sufficiently common to provide significant data. That would give you a good academic career. But if you want to advance human knowledge it would be more productive to question the original definition, which was made in a specific community, with Western norms, and Western commercial interests eager to provide chemical remedies for any named disorder. This means looking at literature critical of DSM-5, and the growing literature of indigenous psychology. But it is not always approved by academic establishments. Good luck
it may be difficult to directly reflect the relationship between culture and psychological problem. However, the role of "values", "beliefs", etc. in the relationship between culture and psychological problem can be explanatory. theoretical support is important. It may be better to reach the culture by reading through psychological disorders.