Healers and psychiatrists: The transformation of mental health care in Tajikistan

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 419-451

  Latypov, Alisher ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

indigenous healers; mental illness; Soviet psychiatry; Tajikistan

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; CHLORPROMAZINE; OPIATE; SULFADIAZINE;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARMY; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DRUG UTILIZATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EMPIRICISM; ETHNOGRAPHY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; GREECE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LAW; LEECHING; LICENCE; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MOSLEM; NEGLECT; NEURASTHENIA; OCCUPATION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELIGION; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPIRITUAL HEALING; TAJIKISTAN; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; URBANIZATION; USSR; WAR;

ALTRUISM; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FOCUS GROUPS; FORECASTING; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALING; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PSYCHIATRY; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL VALUES; TAJIKISTAN;

EID: 77955817002     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461510374558     Document Type: Review

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