Special issue explores mental health variations and cultural practices in non-industrialised societies, indicating significant cultural influences.
Lay Summary Mental health problems vary widely across cultures, yet evolutionary psychiatry has rarely studied non-industrialised societies. This special issue includes four papers — on cross-cultural measurement, mourning rituals in Kenya, perinatal mental health, and PTSD among Turkana warriors — that begin to fill that gap.
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