Culture and obsessive-compulsive disorder

Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 402-404

  de Silva, Padmal ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

culture; obsessive compulsive disorder; OCD; religion; superstition

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; COMPULSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DRUG ABUSE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; ITALY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOSLEM; OBSESSION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUPERSTITION;

EID: 33845357420     PISSN: 14761793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.mppsy.2006.08.006     Document Type: Review

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