ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the breach of communitas, which informs taboos/customs and disturbances of social configurations. The concept of culture provides a methodological and theoretical focus of social processes through which individuals make sense of their world to give shape to identities, beliefs and values through interaction. J. Henrich et al. have argued that the experimental findings of a number of psychological and behavioural disciplines research have been drawn from Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic participants, who are only “representative of 12% of the world’s population”, and yet the findings are routinely generalised cross-culturally. The space that exists between the therapist and the patient should also be considered, taking into account cultural and social norms and standards. The social and political context of qualitative inquiry method is important. Nationality and identity are mapped through cultural artefacts, and motifs of emotional geographies map the connection of history between body and mind.
