Rethinking depression: An ethnographic study of the experiences of depression among Chinese

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-8

  Lee, Dominic T S ^a,b   Kleinman, Joan ^a   Kleinman, Arthur ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Culture; Depression; Ethnography; Illness experience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33847026413     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10673220601183915     Document Type: Article

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