这些年来,随着社会医学和心身医学研究的不断深入,人们通过大量的调查研究发现,文化因素不仅可以做为一类应激源对人类的心身健康发生重要影响,也可以使人类的生理病理过程具有一定的文化意义,本文试图就文化因素与心身健康的关系问题作一粗略探讨。一文化作为一门专门概念是19世纪英国人类学家泰勒首创使用的。它首先主要是人类学、社会学、文化学等学科的研究对象,晚近才逐步为心理学及精神医学所重视并纳入自己的研究范围。人类所不同于动物群体的重大区别之一是人 In recent years, with the continuous deepening of social medicine and psychosomatic medicine research, people have found through a large number of investigations that cultural factors can not only have an important impact on the mental and physical health of human beings as a type of stressor, but also can make human’s physiological and pathological changes The process has a certain cultural significance, this article attempts to make a rough discussion on the relationship between cultural factors and mental health. A culture as a specialized concept was first used by 19th century British anthropologist Taylor. It first and foremost is the subject of anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. Recently, it has been gradually attached importance to psychology and psychiatry and has been incorporated into the scope of its own research. One of the major differences between human beings and animal groups is human beings