The Attribution of Mental Health Problems to Jinn: An Explorative Study in a Transcultural Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic
BackgroundAmong Muslim patients, a common cultural concept of distress is the notion that jinn may be the cause of mental health problems, especially in the presence of hallucinations.ObjectiveThis study examines the frequency with which this attribution style is manifest in a specific psychiatric o...
Main Authors: | Anastasia Lim, Hans W. Hoek, Samrad Ghane, Mathijs Deen, Jan Dirk Blom |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychiatry |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00089/full |
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