The traditional healer and psychiatry.
The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry September 1, 1985 W H Wessels 29 citations
Successful psychiatric treatment for rural Africans should incorporate their traditional belief that illness should be viewed in terms of magical, social, physical and religious parameters. Traditional healers divide illness into those of natural causation and those of traditional cultural aetiology which are peculiar to African people. Natural illness includes epilepsy, familial/genetic...