Yoruba World View and the nature of Psychotic Illness
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Yoruba world view and the nature of psychotic illness.
OBJECTIVE The Yoruba are an ethnic group in southern Nigeria. It is said that their world view centers around a continuous battle between forces of good and evil. Adverse events such as illness are due to the malevolence of enemies, using metaphysical means. Remedy often involves corrective metaphysical intervention, either exclusively or in addition to other methods, such as 'western Medicine'...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: African Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1994-8220
DOI: 10.4314/ajpsy.v12i2.43733