Abstract
A. V. RAO, who for many years has focussed his research interest on cultural features in the clinical picture of depression in India patients, reports some findings in his PH.D. dissertation. R. RAHMAN has studied the socioeconomic characteristics and the symptomatology of depressive patients in East Pakistan. Both authors noted a frequency of hypochondriacal ideas and a rarity of feelings of guilt and of self-reproach in their patient population.
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