Children enacting idioms of witchcraft and spirit possession as a response to trauma: TherapeuticallY beneficial, and for whom?

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 622-643

  Reis, Ria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Africa; child idioms of distress; child witch; haunting spirits; symbolic healing

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; AFRICA; ANGER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; CAMEROON; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD HEALTH; CONSCIOUSNESS; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; ECOSYSTEM; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FANTASY; HEADACHE; HEALING; HUMAN; INJURY; INSOMNIA; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MORALITY; NIGHTMARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RELIGION; RITUAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIETY; THINKING; UGANDA; VIOLENCE; WITCHCRAFT;

AFRICA; CHILD IDIOMS OF DISTRESS; CHILD WITCH; HAUNTING SPIRITS; SYMBOLIC HEALING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICA; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MORALS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMBOLISM; UGANDA; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 84886417434     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461513503880     Document Type: Article

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