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Chapter 23 - Personality Disorders and Culture

from Section 3 - Culture and Mental Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2018

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Antonio Ventriglio ,
Matthew Kelly  and
Dinesh Bhugra
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Dinesh Bhugra  and
Kamaldeep Bhui
Dinesh Bhugra
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London
Kamaldeep Bhui
Affiliation:
Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
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Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry , pp. 275 - 291
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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