‘I wish a happy end’. Hope in the lives of chronic schizophrenic patientsFootnote^a

A Dutch version of this article was published in the Dutch journal Medische Antropologie (Medical Anthropology). An earlier English version was published in the liber amoricum Anthropology and Medicine. Essays in Honor of Professor Arie de Ruijter, edited by Els van Dongen and Selma van Londen, 1998, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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