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Chapter 17 - Cultural Consonance

from Section 2 - Culture and Mental Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2018

By
William W. Dressler
Edited by
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. 194 - 204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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