Fighting against the "evil" : religious and cultural construction of the first psychotic experience of youth living in Sao Paulo, Brazil

The outbreak of the first psychotic episode disarrays the person's everyday experience and of significant others. This work takes the notion of experience as the key mediating variable to understand how the cultural and social frame affects the experience of psychosis. Culture contributes to th...

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Main Author: Redko, Cristina Pozzi.
Other Authors: Corin, Ellen (advisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2000
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37817