Culture and suicide: From a Japanese psychiatrist's perspective

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 137-146

  Takahashi, Yoshitomo ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; JAPAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE;

EID: 0030971824     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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