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Susto (Spanish pronunciation:, Portuguese pronunciation:) is a cultural illness primarily among Latin American cultures. It is described as a condition of "chronic somatic suffering stemming from emotional trauma or from witnessing traumatic experiences lived by others".
Mar 29, 2023 · Susto is a “cultural explanation for distress” among Latinas/Latinos . It is highly prevalent among people in Mexico, Central America, and South America, as well as among some Latinos in the United States, with lifetime prevalence rates ranging from 37%, in Guatemala, to 59%, among Mexican Americans in Texas (Weller et al., 2008).
Dec 14, 2021 · Susto is an illness attributed to a frightening event that causes the soul to leave the body and results in unhappiness and sickness. Individuals with susto also experience significant strains in key social roles . “Symptoms may appear any time from days to years after the fright is experienced.
p. 836). Thus, susto represents a cultural explanation that encompasses the symptoms of various mental disorders and physical diseases. We analyzed the descriptions of susto from different scientific fields and related them to definitions of DSM-5 syndromes. Three syndromic subtypes of susto show a symptomatic overlap with depression, post ...
Mar 3, 2022 · Susto is one of the most common disorders referenced in the medical anthropological and cultural psychiatric literature. This article questions if “susto” as understood in cultural psychiatric terms, especially in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM), is in fact a single “cultural concept of distress.” There is extensive cross-cultural and intracultural variability regarding fright-related disorders in the ethnographic literature. What ...
Jan 23, 2015 · Susto is a Latin American folk illness attributed to having a fright-ening experience, often including “soul loss” as part of the etiology. This article focuses on contemporary descriptions of ...
susto. O’Nell and Selby (1968) argued that susto ’s greater frequency among females than males reflected the more restrictive gen-der roles that women experienced in Zapotec communities. Crandon (1983) suggested that in the Bolivian highland town of Kachin, ethnic status determined a diagnosis of susto. This was the negotiated product
