A Malay crosscultural worldview and forensic review of amok

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 505-510

  Hatta, S Mohamed ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LITERATURE; MALAYSIA; REVIEW; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0029764516     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048679609065024     Document Type: Review

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