Our communication seeks to understand the influence of ancient healing rituals on mental health. We understand mental health as the welfare state that results from the balance between the person and their environment: social, emotional and cultural. This research focuses on the healing rituals with entheogenic substances practiced by the yachag or healers of the Saraguro nationality. The...
Abstract.MINDFULNESS AND NEUROCOGNITIVE REHABILITATION.Nowadays approximately fifty million persons are suffering from dementia throughout the world according to the latest statistics of the European Commission (2016). Moreover, every year new 7.7 million instances of this disease are detected. At this moment, Alzheimer’s disease would be the most common mental disorder in terms of world...