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Case Report

The case of the missing key: Cultural underpinnings of the ingestion of a foreign body in a psychotic patient

Roger C. Gibson Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, JamaicaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Kraig Radlein Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
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Loraine Barnaby Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
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Gillian A. Lowe Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
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Peta‐Gaye Reynolds Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
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Noel McLennon Department of Surgery, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
Pages 151-159 | Received 25 Jan 2010, Accepted 15 Jul 2010, Published online: 18 Nov 2010

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