Running Head: KORO The Nature of Koro: A Culture-Bound Disorder Culture-bound syndromes (CBSs) comprise a diverse set of illness phenomena that the DSM-IV defines as recurrent, locality-specific patterns of aberrant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category. Many of these patterns of behavior are indigenously considered to be ‘illnesses’, or at least afflictions, and most have local names. Koro is one such culture-specific psychiatric disorder …showed first 75 words of 1003 total…

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