Differences in voice-hearing experiences of people with psychosis in the USA, India and Ghana: Interview-based study

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 41-44

  Luhrmann, T M ^a   Padmavati, R ^b   Tharoor, H ^b   Osei, A ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^c Accra General Psychiatric Hospital ^*  (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DELUSION; FEMALE; GHANA; GHANAIAN; HUMAN; INDIA; INDIAN; MALE; PSYCHOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES; COMPLICATION; ETHNOLOGY; HALLUCINATION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GHANA; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84920369557     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.113.139048     Document Type: Article

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