“…None of the formulations, however, appear to have received as much academic interest as the Western view of mental illness. Bhugra and Bhui [7] hold that the misdiagnoses of what they describe as Western-specific psychopathology may occur due to limited cultural awareness. This is particularly evident if one considers the body of knowledge signifying, for example, that auditory hallucinations are dependent on the pathoplastic influences of culture -that is, the ways in which psychological distress manifests.…”