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Title: Mu-Ghayeb: a culture-specific response to bereavement in Oman.
Author: al-Adawi-S; Burjorjee-R; al-Issa-I
Abstract:
Studies with normal subjects and patients suggest that in grieving the dead, the bereaved has to go through a progressive course of psychological and social reorganization. The Mu Ghayeb belief in Omani society involves a complete denial of the loss for a
Journal: Int-J-Soc-Psychiatry. 1997 Summer; 43(2): 144-51