Experiences of religious healing in psychiatric patients in South India

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 215-221

  Campion, J ^a   Bhugra, D ^b  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRISTIAN; CONSULTATION; DELUSION; FEMALE; HEALING; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MOSLEM; RELIGION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THERAPY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0030908896     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00788241     Document Type: Article

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