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Double Jeopardy: Psychopathology of Black Mentally Ill Returned Migrants to Jamaica

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  • Frederick W. Hickling

    (Connolley House, 23 Connolley Avenue, Kingston 4, Jamaica W.I., Department of Psychiatry, University of West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica W.I.)

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The psychopathology of 126 black Jamaican migrants who had spent an average of 12 years in North America and the United Kingdom and had subsequently returned to Jamaica, was established and compared to that of a matched control group of Jamaicans who had never migrated. There was a statistically significant difference in the pattern of diagnosis between the two groups (p

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  • Frederick W. Hickling, 1991. "Double Jeopardy: Psychopathology of Black Mentally Ill Returned Migrants to Jamaica," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 37(2), pages 80-89, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:37:y:1991:i:2:p:80-89
    DOI: 10.1177/002076409103700202
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