Psychiatric Disorder among the Yoruba

The Cornell University Programme in Social Psychiatry is undertaking an investig^ among the Yoruba, a tribe numbering five million and inhabiting Western Nigeria. "} , will be documented in two volumes, of which this first confines itself mainly to descritf" the purposes and methods of the project. Among the authors is Dr. T. Adeoye Larn K Professor of Psychiatry, University College, Ibadan, whose work on the psychiatry of1 people in this area is already well known. Four out of five of the other authors are ff0 ( Cornell University and, for the purposes of comparison, some use is made of the work d? .