AN EPIDEMIC OF “JHIN-JHINI” - A STRANGE CONTAGIOUS PSYCHOGENIC DISORDER IN A VILLAGE IN WEST BENGAL

An epidemic psychogenic disorder called “Jhin-Jhini” which broke out in a village in West Bengal, is described. Tlie social anthropological perspective is explored.

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Autores principales: Nandi, D.N., Banerjee, Gauranga, Saha, H., Sen, Biswajit, Bhattacharjee, Anuj
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1992
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2982975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776146
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author Nandi, D.N.
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spelling pubmed-29829752011-07-20 AN EPIDEMIC OF “JHIN-JHINI” - A STRANGE CONTAGIOUS PSYCHOGENIC DISORDER IN A VILLAGE IN WEST BENGAL Nandi, D.N. Banerjee, Gauranga Saha, H. Sen, Biswajit Bhattacharjee, Anuj Indian J Psychiatry Original Article An epidemic psychogenic disorder called “Jhin-Jhini” which broke out in a village in West Bengal, is described. Tlie social anthropological perspective is explored. Medknow Publications 1992 /pmc/articles/PMC2982975/ /pubmed/21776146 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Article
Nandi, D.N.
Banerjee, Gauranga
Saha, H.
Sen, Biswajit
Bhattacharjee, Anuj
AN EPIDEMIC OF “JHIN-JHINI” - A STRANGE CONTAGIOUS PSYCHOGENIC DISORDER IN A VILLAGE IN WEST BENGAL
title AN EPIDEMIC OF “JHIN-JHINI” - A STRANGE CONTAGIOUS PSYCHOGENIC DISORDER IN A VILLAGE IN WEST BENGAL
title_full AN EPIDEMIC OF “JHIN-JHINI” - A STRANGE CONTAGIOUS PSYCHOGENIC DISORDER IN A VILLAGE IN WEST BENGAL
title_fullStr AN EPIDEMIC OF “JHIN-JHINI” - A STRANGE CONTAGIOUS PSYCHOGENIC DISORDER IN A VILLAGE IN WEST BENGAL
title_full_unstemmed AN EPIDEMIC OF “JHIN-JHINI” - A STRANGE CONTAGIOUS PSYCHOGENIC DISORDER IN A VILLAGE IN WEST BENGAL
title_short AN EPIDEMIC OF “JHIN-JHINI” - A STRANGE CONTAGIOUS PSYCHOGENIC DISORDER IN A VILLAGE IN WEST BENGAL
title_sort epidemic of “jhin-jhini” - a strange contagious psychogenic disorder in a village in west bengal
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2982975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776146
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