The Villagers’Reactions Towards Craziness: AN Indonesian Example

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 275-305

  Broch, Harald Beyer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

behavior; ethnopsychology; Indonesia; mental illness; spirit possession

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE MODEL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDONESIA; MENTAL DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0034767847     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136346150103800301     Document Type: Article

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