How Universal is Something we can call ‘Therapy’? Some Implications of Non-Western Healing Systems for Intercultural Work
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Holistic Medicine
- Vol. 5 (2) , 49-65
- https://doi.org/10.3109/13561829009043447
Abstract
The validity of intercultural psychotherapy appears to depend on some universality of mechanism and meaning. It is however by no means obvious where such universality should be found. Drawing on ethnographic accounts of healing in non-Western contexts, this paper argues for a universality located in context-dependent meaning rather than in universal processes.Keywords
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