Explanatory Models and Mental Health Treatment: Is Vodou an Obstacle to Psychiatric Treatment in Rural Haiti?
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry September 1, 2012 Nayla M. Khoury, Bonnie N. Kaiser, Hunter M. Keys et al. 100 citations
Vodou as an explanatory framework for illness has been considered an impediment to biomedical psychiatric treatment in rural Haiti by some scholars and Haitian professionals. According to this perspective, attribution of mental illness to supernatural possession drives individuals to seek care from houngan -s (Vodou priests) and other folk practitioners, rather than physicians, psychologists,...