Baksbat (Broken Courage): A Trauma-Based Cultural Syndrome in Cambodia

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 160-173

  Chhim, Sotheara ^a,b  

^a Transcultural Psychosocial Organization   (Cambodia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cambodia; cultural syndrome; idiom of distress; PTSD; trauma response

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEAR; HUMAN; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; SOLDIER;

ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; ANXIETY; CAMBODIA; DEPRESSION; FEAR; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84874163051     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2012.674078     Document Type: Article

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