Psychopathology and culture: Disorders of possession and dissociation in intercultural clinical practice

Culture and Mental Health: A Comprehensive Textbook

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 87-97

  Odenwald, Michael ^a   van Duijl, Marjolein ^b   Schmitt, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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