Cultural psychiatry: Research strategies and future directions

Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 97-114

  Kirmayer, Laurence J ^a   Ban, Lauren ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH;

EID: 84908099973     PISSN: 00653268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000348742     Document Type: Article

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