Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal

Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal

A History of Transcultural Psychiatry

Bullard, Alice

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05/2022

264

Dura

Inglês

9780367631000

15 a 20 dias

426

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Introduction 1. Healing at Fann Hospital 2. Physiology of Trauma, Fear, and Anxiety: Polyvagal Theory 3. A Case of Impotence / Xala 4. The Man Who Makes Trees Cry: A Healer's Art 5. Witch Narratives: Stolen Souls and Aggression 6. Devoured by Fear in Childbirth and Haunted "No-Good" Children 7. Trauma Defenses: Denial, Dissociation, and Magical Thinking 8. Ancestors 9. Bouffee Delirante: Living Myth and Madness
Senegal;Polyvagal theory;Mental health;Trauma;Spirit;Psychiatry;Africa;West Africa;Spirit possession;Colonial;Post-colonial;Globalisation;Fann Hospital;Mental illness;Stephen Porges;PVT;Transcultural Psychiatry;Young Man;El Hadji;Anti-psychotic Drugs;Magical Thinking;DVC;Vice Versa;Fourth Wife;Social Engagement System;Incest Prohibition;Sy's Case;Wolof Woman;Edmond Ortigues;Islamic Marabouts;Colonial Administration;Physiological State;Ivory Coast;Traditional Healers;Witchcraft Accusations;Frenzied Anxiety;French West Africa