War, exile, moral knowledge and the limits of psychiatric understanding: A clinical case study of a bosnian refugee in London

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 264-268

  Summerfield, Derek ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Moral knowledge; Post traumatic stress disorder; Psychiatry; Refugee; War

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MORALITY; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REFUGEE; SOCIAL LIFE; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION PROCESS; WAR;

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; CULTURE; FLUOXETINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRY; REFUGEES; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 0346639152     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764003494004     Document Type: Article

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