An ethnic psychosis refers to a:

a. psychotic episode experienced by a person from an exotic culture.
b. progressive disease that strikes anthropologists when they spend more than 12 months in the field.
c. psychosis characterized by symptoms peculiar to a particular group.
d. universal form of mental illness.
e. biologically-based disease that resembles schizophrenia.


ANSWER: c

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