Author: Kiev, Ari ; editor:
Title: Magic, Faith, and Healing : Studies in Primitive Psychiatry Today
Description: New York, Free Press of Glencoe, [1964]. orig. cloth. 24x15cm, xvii, 475 pp. With a Foreword by Jerome D. Frank. Some rubbing. Some page-edge soil & spotting. Good. ¶ Contains 19 papers. Includes: The Study of Folk Psychiatry; Confession as Cathartic Therapy; Psychotherapeutic Aspects of Shamanism on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska; Indigenous Yoruba Psychiatry; Magic Healing Techniques Among the Balahis in Central India; Folk Psychiatry in Sarawak: A Tentative System of Psychiatry of the Iban; Psychiatric Disorders as Recognized by the Shona; Witchcraft and Clanship in Cochiti Therapy; The Social Meaning of Navaho Psychopathology and Psychotherapy; An Ndembu Doctor in Practice; The Role of Native Doctors in Aboriginal Australia; Some Aspects of Functional Disorders Among the Kenya Luo; Urbanization and Mental Health in a West African Community; Folk Treatment of Mental Illness in Turkey; The Changing Social Role of the Yemenite Mori; Folk Psychiatry of the Apaches of the Mescalero Indian Reservation; Volue Conflicts and Folk Psychotherapy in South Texas; Patterns of Psychiatric Care in Developing African Countries; Implications for the Future.

Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Folk Medicine, Psychiatry, Spagiric Mystic, Ethnopsychiatry, Psychology, Psychological, Ethnomedicine, Ethnography