Narratives of psychiatric malingering in works of fiction

Medical Humanities

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 67-72

  Kuperman, Victor ^a,b  

^a Russian State University for Humanities ^*  (Netherlands)

^b RUSSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOR THE HUMANITIES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALINGERING; MENTAL DISEASE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIETY; STEREOTYPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 33845724039     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2005.000213     Document Type: Article

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