Overview: Explores the relationship between culture, trauma, dissociation and brief–chronic psychotic states, suggesting schemas for culturally sensitive intervention.Includes multiple case histories with extenThe relatively frequent occurrence of rapid onset and very brief, but often florid, psychotic states, with periodic recurrence, alongside relatively low rates of PTSD and chronic psychosis, were unexpected findings from the 2004 East Timor Mental Health Study, conducted in the context of the country’s recently won independence and in the wake of the atrocities endured in the protracted f
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