A Study of Mental Derangement in Africans, and an Attempt to Explain its Peculiarities, More Especially in Relation to the African Attitude to Life | Journal of Mental Science | Cambridge Core (original) (raw)
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This article is a study of mental derangement in Kenya Africans, and is based on seven years' special experience as Medical Officer in charge of Mathari Mental Hospital and of H.M. Prison, Nairobi, and on nine years' previous general medical experience as a Government Medical Officer in various parts of the Colony.
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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1947
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