Demonic attributions in nondelusional disorders

Psychopathology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 252-259

  Pfeifer, Samuel ^a,b  

^a Psychiatric Clinic Sonnenhalde   (Switzerland)

^b Psychiatric Clinic Sonnenhalde   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGED; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DELUSION; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL PATIENT; OUTPATIENT; PERSONALITY DISORDER; RELIGION; RURAL AREA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DELUSIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MAGIC; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SUPERSTITIONS; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 0032865290     PISSN: 02544962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000029097     Document Type: Article

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