"The street will drive you crazy": Why homeless psychotic women in the institutional circuit in the united states often say no to offers of help

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-20

  Luhrmann, Tanya Marie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; URBAN AREA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT; SEX FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 39049155435     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07071166     Document Type: Review

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