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A view from the road: experiences in four continents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Vikram Patel
Vikram Patel*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London & Visiting Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical School, Harare
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∗Department of C-L Psychiatry, Free University Hospital, De Boelelaan 1117, PO 7075 Box 1071 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Since graduating from medical school eight years ago, I have had the chance of experiencing clinical psychiatry in four countries on four continents; Bombay and Goa, India, my home, where I trained in medicine and began my psychiatric training; Oxford and London, United Kingdom, where I acquired a taste for academic psychiatry and completed my clinical training; Sydney, Australia, where I worked in a liaison unit in a large general hospital and a community mental health centre; and now, Harare, Zimbabwe, where I am conducting a two year study on traditional concepts of mental illness and the role of traditional healers and other care providers in primary mental health care.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 8 , August 1994 , pp. 500 - 502
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