What a culture considers acceptable strongly influences the expression of anger. Which culture-bound syndrome is a dissociative episode characterized by a period of brooding followed by an outburst of violent, aggressive, or homicidal behavior directed at other people and objects?

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Livia Roberson

Biology

2 January, 18:20

What a culture considers acceptable strongly influences the expression of anger. Which culture-bound syndrome is a dissociative episode characterized by a period of brooding followed by an outburst of violent, aggressive, or homicidal behavior directed at other people and objects?

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Lauryn Patel · Answer 1

Amok.

Explanation:

Amok may be defined as a type of the culture bound syndrome and may occur due to the feeling of jealousy by an individual. Amok can be brought by the humiliation and desperation feeling.

The main characteristics of amok is aggression, brooding period outburst by violent and homicidal behavior towards people and object. The individual can do murder as well.

Thus, the answer is amok.