Public mental health and culture: Disasters as a challenge to western mental health care models, the self, and PTSD

Broken Spirits: The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seekers, Refugees and War and Torture Victims

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 159-178

  de Jong, Joop ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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