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ESTRATEGIA DE EVALUACIÓN PSICOTERAPÉUTICA PARA VALORAR LA EFECTIVIDAD DEL SHAMANISMO EN EL TRATAMIENTO DEL “SUSTO” COMO SÍNDROME CULTURAL EN LA CIUDAD DE MÓRROPE – LAMBAYEQUE, 2018

Juan Luis Rodríguez Vega, Pedro Carlos Pérez Martinto, Doris Margot Díaz de Angulo

July 19, 2020 DOI: 10.26495/rcp.v11i1.1337 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Descriptive study
Sample size 50
Population Patients diagnosed with 'fright' (susto) cultural syndrome living in Mórrope
Intervention Shamanism
Topics Shamanism
Key points The authors propose a phased psychotherapeutic evaluation strategy for assessing the effectiveness of shamanic treatment of 'fright' as a cultural syndrome in Mórrope. They contend that shamanism's use as a psychotherapeutic process has remained constant over time, while its academic study has moved from social medicine and sociology through anthropology to transpersonal psychology. The strategy was validated by specialist criteria.

Abstract

The present descriptive-purpose research has been aimed at developing a strategy of psychotherapeutic evaluation to assess the effectiveness of the treatment of fright as a cultural syndrome in the city of Mórrope; for which we worked with a sample of 50 patients from the district who live in that city and have been diagnosed with said cultural syndrome. Using for this work an epidemiological methodology first diagnosing the cases of fright, then assessing the relationship between the patient with the healer or shaman, in that transit it was possible to epistemologically base the therapeutic process of Shamanism and its dynamics, it was determined that the trends History of the application of shamanism as a Psychotherapeutic process, they have remained constant over time, but in terms of their study, it has moved from social medicine, sociology, anthropology to reach the so-called transpersonal psychology. The current state of the therapeutic processes of Shamanism in the treatment of fright as a cultural syndrome in the city of Mórrope was characterized; managing to elaborate the different phases of psychotherapeutic evaluation strategy to adequately assess the effectiveness of the scare treatment. The results were validated by criteria of specialists organizing an epidemiological and semiological strategy.

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