TY - JOUR
AU - David, Anthony S.
AB - ORIGINAL ARTICLE Depersonalization and Individualism: The Effect of Culture on Symptom Profiles in Panic Disorder Mauricio Sierra-Siegert, MD, PhD, and Anthony S. David, MD depression (Sierra et al., 2006). This is consistent with find- Abstract: It has been proposed that highly individualistic cultures ings from previous studies, which suggest that depersonal- confer vulnerability to depersonalization. To test this idea, we ization is less frequent among psychiatric in-patients from carried out a comprehensive systematic review of published empir- Asian and Latin American countries as compared with the ical studies on panic disorder, which reported the frequency of West (for a review of this, see Sierra et al., 2006). For depersonalization/derealization during panic attacks. It was pre- example, symptom profiles from the Pilot Study of Schizo- dicted that the frequency of depersonalization would be higher in phrenia (World Health Organization, 1973) show that while Western cultures and that a significant correlation would be found the highest prevalence of derealization among patients with between the frequency of depersonalization and individualism schizophrenia was highest in the United States and Western scores of the participant countries. Europe (US, 40%; UK, 30%; Denmark, 27%), it was lowest As predicted, the frequency of depersonalization during panic 
TI - Depersonalization and Individualism: The Effect of Culture on Symptom Profiles in Panic Disorder
JF - The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
DO - 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31815c19f7
DA - 2007-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/depersonalization-and-individualism-colon-the-effect-of-culture-on-zzE9pm5zim
SP - 989
EP - 995
VL - 195
IS - 12
DP - DeepDyve
ER -