Spiritual and mental health crisis in globalizing Senegal: a history of transcultural psychiatry

"This book explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were also expressed in the terms of spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession and ancestor worship. Focused on the effervescent and fruitful early post-colonial years at the Fann Hospital, s...

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1. Verfasser: Bullard, Alice (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Routledge research in health and healing in Africa and the African diaspora
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Zusammenfassung:"This book explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were also expressed in the terms of spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession and ancestor worship. Focused on the effervescent and fruitful early post-colonial years at the Fann Hospital, situated at the famed University of Dakar, Cheikh Anta Diop, this book reveals provocative treatment innovations via case studies of individuals struggling for health and healing. This book operates as a suspension bridge between scholarship on witchcraft and magic on the one side and the history of psychiatry and psycho-analysis on the other. This book creates a new route of exchange for healing knowledge for a broad array of West African spiritual troubles, mental illness, magic, soul cannibalism, witchcraft, spirit possession, and psychosis"--...
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (219 Seiten)
ISBN:9781003112143
DOI:10.4324/9781003112143

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