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‘Exotic’ treatments and Western psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Julian Leff
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , May 1975 , pp. 125 - 128
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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