SEXUAL GUILT AND CULTURALLY SANCTIONED DELUSIONS IN WEST AFRICA (Liberia), by R. M. WINTROB, Montreal, Canada. Presented at the I23 rd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Detroit, Michigan, May I967. Mimeograph, I4 pp

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Abstract
In accordance with a revival of interest in ancient etiological concepts of treatment of disease and in ancient methods of treatment of mental disorders in India, N. S. VAHIA et al. treated a number of patients—largely patients suffering from conversion hysteria, anxiety states or from psychosomatic disorders— in a traditional manner. The treatment procedures which they employed and the therapeutic results which they obtained are described. B. P. SHARMA noted differences in the frequency and nature of psychoneurotic symptoms between the rural and urban population of Nepal. Particularly common in urban psychoneurotic patients are symptoms related to sexual function. The nature of these symptoms is described and an explanation for the frequency of these disorders is offered.