Long-term mental sequelae of torture in Iran - Who seeks treatment?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 74-77

  Priebe, Stefan ^b   Esmaili, Saeed ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REFUGEE; TORTURE;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IRAN; LANGUAGE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; MULTILINGUALISM; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POLITICS; PRISONERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TORTURE;

EID: 0031018619     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199702000-00002     Document Type: Article

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