Mental Illness among Bhutanese Shamans in Nepal

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 313-317

  Van Ommeren, Mark ^a,d   Komproe, Ivan ^a   Cardeña, Etzel ^b   Thapa, Suraj B ^c   Prasain, Dinesh ^c   De Jong, Joop T V M ^a   Sharma, Bhogendra ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE   (United States)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BHUTAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEPAL; PHOBIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REFUGEE; RELIGION; SEX RATIO; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STRUCTURED DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

BHUTAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REFUGEES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHAMANISM;

EID: 1842580815     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000122381.09491.7f     Document Type: Article

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