Kiyang-yang, a West-African postwar idiom of distress

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 301-321

  de Jong, Joop T ^a,b   Reis, Ria ^c,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Armed conflict; Barrenness; Central possession religion; Clairvoyance; Dissociation; Guinea Bissau; Healing cult; Idiom of distress; Kiyang yang; Political violence; Social suffering; Traumatic stress; Witchcraft

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMAN; MAGIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VIOLENCE; WAR; WITCHCRAFT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA, WESTERN; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MAGIC; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SPIRITUAL THERAPIES; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; WAR; WITCHCRAFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953057268     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-010-9178-7     Document Type: Article

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