Introduction: Towards a New Research Paradigm in Popular Culture

Part I: East Asia

Chapter 1: When Repressed Anger Fights Back: Hwabyung in Korean Popular Culture

Chapter 2: Human Encaged: Hikikomori and Taijin Kyofusho in Japanese Popular Culture

Chapter 3: A Qigong-Induced Mental Disorder: Zou Huo Ru Mo in Chinese Popular Culture

Part II: India and Southeast Asia

Chapter 4: Cultural Syndromes in India: Understanding Widow Burning in Sati and Jauhar through Indian Literature

Chapter 5: The Yakshi Syndrome in Indian Popular Culture: Representation of Possessed Female Bodies in Indian Cinema

Chapter 6: Seeking the Maternal Uncle: A Study of the Culture-Bound Syndrome Known as Nihu in the Karbis

Chapter 7: Old but Still Going Strong: Don Khong in Thai Popular Culture

Chapter 8: Rethinking Amok: Indigenous Identity Affirmation in Malay Legends of Southeast Asia

Part III: America and Native American culture

Chapter 9: The Next Frame Could Be My Redemption: Signature Wounds and Tunnel-Vision Haunt War-Themed Cultural Artifacts

Chapter 10: Wendigo Psychosis: From Colonial Fabrication to Popular Culture Appropriations and Indigenous Reclamations

Chapter 11: Cuban Hysteria. Tracing the Invention of a Culture-Bound Syndrome. (1798?1830)

Chapter 12: Digital Culture-Bound Syndromes: A Sociocultural Perspective on Human-Technology Interaction, Mental Health, and Communication

Part IV: Africa and the Middle East

Chapter 13: To Kill or to Resurrect: Screening the Agency of Voodoo Priests, Sorcerers and Men of God in Cameroonian and Nigerian Films

Chapter 14: Belief in the Existence of the Jinn as a Cultural Syndrome: The Case of Sadeq Hedayat's Fiction

Chapter 15: Ghostly Environments: Faru Rab and the Transnational in Atlantics (2019)