Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal by Alice Bullard

Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal by Alice Bullard

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

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ISBN 13	9780367631000
ISBN 10	0367631008
Titel	Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal
Autor	Alice Bullard
Serie	Routledge Research In Health And Healing In Africa And The African Diaspora
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Verlag	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2022-05-19
Seitenanzahl	264
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