Indigenous Therapists in a Southern Black Urban Community
- 1 January 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 28 (1) , 137-142
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1973.01750310109018
Abstract
Despite the development of the community mental health movement, indigenous therapists continue to provide an important health care resource in many communities. This is particularly true in various subcultures in America. In an urban black community in the South (1) root doctors, (2) faith healers, (3) magic vendors, and (4) neighborhood prophets were identified as performing this function.Keywords
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