The search for meaning: Eventfulness in the lives of homeless mentally ill persons in the Skid Row district of Los Angeles

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 277-296

  Cohen, Alex ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BOREDOM; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MENTAL DISEASE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BOREDOM; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LOS ANGELES; MENTAL DISORDERS; POVERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0035465279     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011825327636     Document Type: Article

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