Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal: A History of Transcultural Psychiatry

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Alice Bullard

Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal

A History of Transcultural Psychiatry

Alice Bullard

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Routledge
26 August 2024

General & world history; African history; Ethnic studies; Psychology; Health systems & services

Series: Routledge Research in Health and Healing in Africa and the African Diaspora

Spiritual and Mental Health Crisis in Globalizing Senegal explores the history of mental health in Senegal, and how psychological difficulties were expressed in the terms of spiritualism, magic, witchcraft, spirit possession, and ancestor worship.

Focused on the effervescent and fruitful early post-colonial years at the Fann Hospital, situated at the famed University of Dakar, Cheikh Anta Diop, this book reveals provocative treatment innovations via case studies of individuals struggling for health and healing, and thus operates as a suspension bridge between scholarship on witchcraft and magic on the one side and the history psychiatry and psychoanalysis on the other.

Through these case studies, this book creates a new route of exchange for healing knowledge for a broad array of West African spiritual troubles, mental illness, magic, soul cannibalism, witchcraft, spirit possession, and psychosis.

By: Alice Bullard
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9780367744267
ISBN 10: 0367744260
Series: Routledge Research in Health and Healing in Africa and the African Diaspora
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 26 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alice Bullard (Ph.D. & ESQ) is a lawyer specializing in human rights, trafficking, personal status, and mediation. Previously, she was a professor of history at Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A