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Chapter 13 - Explanatory Models in Psychiatry

from Section 2 - Culture and Mental Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2018

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Mitchell G. Weiss
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Dinesh Bhugra  and
Kamaldeep Bhui
Dinesh Bhugra
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
Kamaldeep Bhui
Affiliation:
Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
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Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry , pp. 143 - 157
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Print publication year: 2018

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