Traditional healing practices in Southern Africa: Ancestral spirits, ritual ceremonies, and holistic healing

Integrating Traditional Healing Practices into Counseling and Psychotherapy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 61-72

  Bojuwoye, Olaniyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452231648.n6     Document Type: Chapter

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