(Ng)amukRevisited: EmotionaL Expression and Mental Illness in Central Java, Indonesia

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 147-165

  Browne, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

(ng)amuk; culture bound syndromes; emotion; idiom of distress; mental illness; self

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; HAZARD; INDONESIA; MENTAL DISEASE; MODEL; PERCEPTION; POLITICS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

EID: 0034933092     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136346150103800201     Document Type: Article

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