Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal
A History of Transcultural Psychiatry
Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-74426-7 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-74426-7 (ISBN)
This book explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were also expressed in the terms of spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession and ancestor worship. It operates as a suspension bridge between scholarship on witchcraft and magic and the history of psychiatry and psycho-analysis.
Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were expressed in the terms of spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession, and ancestor worship.
Focused on the effervescent and fruitful early post-colonial years at the Fann Hospital, situated at the famed University of Dakar, Cheikh Anta Diop, this book reveals provocative treatment innovations via case studies of individuals struggling for health and healing, and thus operates as a suspension bridge between scholarship on witchcraft and magic on the one side and the history psychiatry and psychoanalysis on the other.
Through these case studies, this book creates a new route of exchange for healing knowledge for a broad array of West African spiritual troubles, mental illness, magic, soul cannibalism, witchcraft, spirit possession, and psychosis.
Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were expressed in the terms of spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession, and ancestor worship.
Focused on the effervescent and fruitful early post-colonial years at the Fann Hospital, situated at the famed University of Dakar, Cheikh Anta Diop, this book reveals provocative treatment innovations via case studies of individuals struggling for health and healing, and thus operates as a suspension bridge between scholarship on witchcraft and magic on the one side and the history psychiatry and psychoanalysis on the other.
Through these case studies, this book creates a new route of exchange for healing knowledge for a broad array of West African spiritual troubles, mental illness, magic, soul cannibalism, witchcraft, spirit possession, and psychosis.
Alice Bullard (Ph.D. & ESQ) is a lawyer specializing in human rights, trafficking, personal status, and mediation. Previously, she was a professor of history at Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A
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. Bouffée Délirante: Living Myth and Madness
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Research in Health and Healing in Africa and the African Diaspora |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 485 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-74426-0 / 0367744260 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-74426-7 / 9780367744267 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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Buch | Softcover (2024)
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