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13 - Understanding the Social Etiology of Psychosis

from Section Three - Cultural Contexts of Psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2015

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Kwame McKenzie  and
Jai Shah
Edited by
Laurence J. Kirmayer ,
Robert Lemelson  and
Constance A. Cummings
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
Robert Lemelson
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Constance A. Cummings
Affiliation:
Foundation for Psychocultural Research, California
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Re-Visioning Psychiatry
Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health
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Print publication year: 2015

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