Psychiatry. 1975 Feb; 38(1): 92-5.

A culturally patterned depression in a mother after loss of a child.

Lewis TH.

The phenomenology of clinical psychiatric syndromes is conditioned by the cultural ambience of the patient. This paper describes a reactive depression in an Amerindian woman (Trio group) of Surinam, which followed the form, onset, and outcome prescribed by her tribal tradition.