Mental health in Northern Malawi : a cultural perspective
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Karen M. Smyth, 'Mental health in Northern Malawi : a cultural perspective', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Psychiatry, 2002, pp 340Download Item:
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Abstract:
This thesis seeks to address a theoretical question: What is the experience of people
with a mental disturbance, when they are introduced to a health care system which is
ontologically distinct from their own cultural beliefs about health? This question was
addressed in the context of a recently established biomedically orientated mental health
service in Northern Malawi. Mental disturbance is predominately treated by traditional
healers in this region. Two parallel studies were conducted; a longitudinal study which
explored the explanation’s patients in the mental health service held regarding their
mental disturbance and a study which focussed on traditional healers in the extant
healing system.
Author: Smyth, Karen M.
Advisor:
MacLachlan, MacWalsh, Pat
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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)Publisher:
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