BJPsych OpenMarch 9, 2023Yonas Baheretibeb, Dawit Wondimagegn, Samuel Law
Background Religious and traditional healers remain the main providers of mental healthcare in much of Africa. Collaboration between biomedical and traditional treatment modalities is an underutilised approach, with potential to scale up mental healthcare. Aims To report the process and feasibility of establishing a collaboration between religious healers and psychiatrists in Addis Ababa,...
Traditional and contemporary Inuit concepts of sleep paralysis were investigated through interviews with elders and young people in Iqaluit, Baffin Island. Sleep paralysis was readily recognized by most respondents and termed uqumangirniq (in the Baffin region) or aqtuqsinniq (Kivalliq region). Traditional interpretations of uqumangirniq referred to a shamanistic cosmology in which the...