AUTHOR=Koreki Akihiro , Koizumi Teruki , Ogyu Kamiyu , Onaya Mitsumoto 

TITLE=Case Report: Culture-Dependent Postures in Japanese Patients With Schizophrenia

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychiatry

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.686817

DOI=10.3389/fpsyt.2021.686817

ISSN=1664-0640

ABSTRACT=<p>Cross-cultural understanding of psychiatric symptoms is important in the current globalised society. Lack of knowledge regarding culture-dependent manifestations of psychiatric illnesses may lead to misjudgement by clinicians, resulting in inappropriate treatment. We present the cases of two patients with schizophrenia who showed Japanese-culture-dependent postures (<italic>seiza</italic> and <italic>dogeza</italic>). <italic>Seiza</italic> is a Japanese style of formal floor sitting. <italic>Dogeza</italic> includes bowing and touching the forehead to the floor while sitting in a kneeling position. When patients with schizophrenia perform these postures in a clinical setting, clinicians receive plenty of information regarding the patients' clinical states, including schizophrenia-related fear/tension, accusatory auditory verbal hallucinations, and pathological guilt.</p>