American Indian Healers and Psychiatrists: Building Alliances

Psychiatrists and Traditional Healers: Unwitting Partners in Global Mental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 123-134

  Shore, Jay H ^a   Shore, James H ^a   Manson, Spero M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AI veterans, psychiatrists and traditional healers; AI veterans, psychiatrists and traditional healers Northern plains tribe; AI veterans, psychiatrists and traditional healers Southwest tribes; American Indian (AI) healers and psychiatrists and building alliances; Collaboration between psychiatrists and AI healers crucial area in mental health treatment; Guidelines for psychiatrists interested in collaborating with AI traditional healers; Informal and formal collaborations with traditional healers in reservation communities; Model for process of collaboration between AI healers and psychiatrists; Talking circle, smudging ceremony and sweat lodge traditional healing practice forms in northern plains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857847529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470741054.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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