Afterword: AgainsT “global mental health”

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 519-530

  Summerfield, Derek ^a  

^a Institute of Psychiatry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPRESSION; DSM-IV; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MENTAL HEALTH; NOTE; PERSONHOOD; VALIDITY;

CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURE; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH;

EID: 84866878886     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461512454701     Document Type: Article

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