Psychiatry and folk healing: a dichotomy?
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 133 (1) , 95-97
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.1.95
Abstract
A mental health center's experience with folk healers in a Hispanic urban ghetto revealed a culturally accepted belief system based on a body of empirical knowledge that helps its members to cope with distress. The authors suggest that including folk healers as team members in the delivery of mental health services is a valuable contribution to psychiatry.Keywords
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