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The ‘New Cross-Cultural Psychiatry’

A Case of the Baby and the Bathwater

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Julian Leff
Julian Leff*
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British Journal of Psychiatry
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 3 , March 1990 , pp. 305 - 307
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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