Mental illness and Irish people: Stereotypes, determinants and changing perspectives

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 309-316

  Clarke, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change; Colonialism; Emigration; Famine; Identity; Mental illness

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; IRELAND; MIGRATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STARVATION;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COLONIALISM; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; IRELAND; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STARVATION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 0032134596     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2850.1998.00139.x     Document Type: Review

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