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Psychology Mental Illness

You Never Know What They Might Do

Mental Illness in Outport Newfoundland

by (author) Paul S. Dinham

Publisher
ISER Books
Initial publish date
Jan 1977
Category
Mental Illness
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919666191
    Publish Date
    Jan 1977
    List Price
    $12.95

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How do villagers look upon mental illness? How do the 'sick' among them avoid hospitalization in the "mental"? This fieldwork study by a sociologist stresses the necessity of taking cultural factors into account in diagnosing mental disorders.

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