Psychotherapy and the Cultural Concept of the Person

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 232-257

  Kirmayer, Laurence J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

individualism; intercultural psychotherapy; personhood; self; symbolic healing; values

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EGO IDENTITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUALITY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONHOOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SELF ACTUALIZATION; SELF CONCEPT;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; EGO; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 34250687930     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461506070794     Document Type: Article

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