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Chen, YuJu.

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Rethinking dependent personality disorder: Reconstructing the meaning of dependence from cultural contexts.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rethinking dependent personality disorder: Reconstructing the meaning of dependence from cultural contexts./
Author:	Chen, YuJu.
Description:	104 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Margaret E. Nettles.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-10B.
Subject:	Psychology, Clinical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3191968
ISBN:	9780542372063

Rethinking dependent personality disorder: Reconstructing the meaning of dependence from cultural contexts.
Chen, YuJu.

Rethinking dependent personality disorder: Reconstructing the meaning of dependence from cultural contexts. - 104 p.

Adviser: Margaret E. Nettles.

Thesis (Psy.D.)--Alliant International University, San Francisco Bay, 2005.

In this paper, I argue that dependent personality disorder (DPD) is a culturally related concept, that the values and beliefs behind this diagnosis are not universal, but rather reflect deep assumptions regarding the adaptive standards of self and interpersonal relationship in western individualistic culture. Thus, the unselective application of the DSM system to non-western cultures and countries is inappropriate. Through a discussion of dependent personality disorder, the means by which cultural factors play an important role in the construction of normalcy, optimal development, and mental disorders are explored.

ISBN: 9780542372063Subjects--Topical Terms:

524864
Psychology, Clinical.

Rethinking dependent personality disorder: Reconstructing the meaning of dependence from cultural contexts.
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520 $a In this paper, I argue that dependent personality disorder (DPD) is a culturally related concept, that the values and beliefs behind this diagnosis are not universal, but rather reflect deep assumptions regarding the adaptive standards of self and interpersonal relationship in western individualistic culture. Thus, the unselective application of the DSM system to non-western cultures and countries is inappropriate. Through a discussion of dependent personality disorder, the means by which cultural factors play an important role in the construction of normalcy, optimal development, and mental disorders are explored.
520 $a This is a conceptual-analytic dissertation. I first explore the criteria, related theories, and internal structure of the diagnosis of dependent personality disorder. Through this discussion, the limitations of the underlying assumptions of dependent personality disorder in the previous Western literature are demonstrated. This provides the background to understand the importance of rethinking dependent personality disorder.
520 $a I further challenge the concept that culture is marginal to the study of psychology. Three different paradigms, cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, and indigenous psychology are explored. In addition, I discuss the interplay of culture and psychopathology. The efforts made in current diagnostic systems to increase their cross-cultural applicability and the means by which culture impacts psychopathology are reviewed.
520 $a The culture-related nature of dependent personality disorder is discussed from various perspectives. First, the characteristics and history of the construct of individualism-collectivism are reviewed. This construct is used as the starting point from which to explore human relatedness across cultures. In addition, the multiple facets of collectivism and Confucianism are discussed. I argue that roles and duties, rather than "true self" are the concepts relevant to how people are defined in Collectivism. Through examples of East Asian Collectivism, the nature of DPD is reconsidered. Further, I adopt a developmental perspective to expand the discussion of human relatedness across culture, and re-examine the meanings of dependence and independence. I argue that the fundamental hypotheses of attachment theory and the Western developmental path are not universal. The underlying framework in Western cultures, which leads to an emphasis on independence and individuation, are culture-encouraged, rather than universal.
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